Police says that the woman carrying a bomb was killed after it exploded before being able to put it outside the bank

Woman in Greece He was killed early on Saturday after a bomb police said she was carrying her hands.

It seems that a 38 -year -old woman, who was not publicly identified, was carrying the bomb to put it outside a bank in the North Saloniki city around 5 am local time when she came out. Several stores of stores and vehicles were damaged by the explosion.

“It seems that she was carrying a explosive device and planned to grow the bank’s ATMs,” a senior police official told Reuters. “An error occurred and exploded in her hands.”

The woman died of her wounds in the hospital.

Police said that the woman has a criminal record of drugs and prostitution and participated in the robbery and theft of at least one in the past. The Greek Police Department of Organized Crime was investigating the accident, while the authorities were also investigating whether the woman might have links with the left -wing extremist groups.

Greece witnessed accidental bombings, as well as targeted killings, attributed to various organized crime groups. The country also has a long history of violence with political motives dating back to the 1970s, where local extremist groups carry out small bombings that cause some damage, but rarely lead to injuries.

While the most active groups in the 1980s and 1990s, whose favorite goals tend to be politicians, foreign companies and diplomats, have been dismantled, and new small groups have emerged.

Last year, a man believed to have been trying to collect a bomb was killed when the device that he was making in an apartment exploded in the Central Athens. A woman inside the apartment was seriously injured. It was not clear what their intended goal.

The explosion prompted Citizen Protection Minister Michallis Krisochionis to warn of a new generation arising from local extremists.

In April, a new group called itself the revolutionary class struggle with its responsibility for a bomb that exploded in central Athens near the Hellenic train offices, the main railway services operator in Greece, and planted another bomb near the Ministry of Labor in early February.

The explosion near the train offices led to limited damage to the building and no injuries. It was preceded by an unknown invitation to the local media 40 minutes before the explosion warned of the device, prompting the police to evacuate and surround the area.

The group, who claimed the responsibility, said that the bombing was part of an armed conflict against the state.

The shelling in the train offices came shortly after the second anniversary of the worst railway disaster in Greece, in which 57 people were killed and more wounded when the shipping train and passenger train were placed in two directions opposite on the same path.