Egnatia

Six people were killed and 10 injured when the SUV they were traveling in crashed on the Egnatia Odos highway in northern Greece on Friday morning.

The six fatalities included three children, while the ANA-MPA news agency said that three of the 10 injured are in critical condition at the Kavala General Hospital.

Greece's creditors are forcing Transport and Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis into a humiliating retreat on all fronts on the issue of the Egnatia Highway, according to the updated version of the bailout agreement.

Four or five major stumbling blocks look likely to weigh on the last bailout review that started on Wednesday at the Hilton hotel in Athens, according to a senior Finance Ministry official.

The government is opening a new front with state sell-off fund TAIPED, focusing on the privatizations of Athens International Airport and Egnatia Odos, and the utilization of 10 regional ports, following the aggressive statements by Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis and General Secretary for Ports Christos Lambridis.

Greece on Wednesday prequalified seven investment groups to take part in the second phase of a tender for the administration of the Egnatia Odos highway, privatization agency TAIPED said.

Two men from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia were detained in the area of Asprovalta, northeast of Thessaloniki, on Friday following a police chase.

The two men, aged 28 and 40, had been sat in the front of a vehicle carrying 13 migrants from Pakistan along the Egnatia Highway when officers at a police road block signaled to them to stop for an inspection.

A father and daughter were arrested in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Friday on charges of belonging to a ring that imported and distributed large amounts of heroin.

Police arrested the 53-year-old and his 32-year-old daughter after they allegedly concluded a drug deal in an outdoor parking lot on the outskirts of town.

Hooded hooligans claiming to be acting against the "establishment" staged multiple attacks on various targets in Athens and Thessaloniki on Thursday.

Archaeologists on Friday presented more than 300,000 finds including monumental funerary and architectural ensembles, 50,000 coins and a wide array of artifacts that provide a near-complete picture of the city beneath modern-day Thessaloniki from the 4th century BC to recent times.

The state is speeding up the process for the integrated use and upgrading of the key transport infrastructures in northern Greece, as sell-off fund TAIPED is aiming to quickly wrap up the privatization of Thessaloniki Port Authority (OLTH) by mid-March, as well as to enter the second stage of the tender for the Egnatia Odos highway and start the process for the concession of the port authoritie