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Bomb explodes in Athens, no one injured

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Police say a bomb has exploded outside a package shipping company in Athens, causing considerable damage but no injuries.

Sunday's explosion left a small crater outside an apartment building where Swift Mail is located and damaged its ground floor offices and two nearby motorcycles. The company was closed at the time. In 2010, Greece's anarchist group Conspiracy Nuclei of Fire used Swift Mail to send mail bombs that targeted embassies in Athens and European officials in other countries, including one that reached German Chancellor Angela Merkel's office in Berlin.

Subsequent postings in an unrelated left-wing forum accused Swift Mail employees of cooperating with the police in their investigation.

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