AHEPA University Hospital

Four teenagers were killed and another injured in the early hours of Tuesday on the outskirts of Thessaloniki after the car they were in veered off the road and crashed into a wall.

The crash occurred at around 3.30 a.m. in the area of Evosmos, on the corner of Anageniseos and Smyrnis streets, just above the Thessaloniki ring road, according to the ANA-MPA news agency.

A 47-year-old mechanical engineer working for the Municipality of Thessaloniki died on Tuesday at the northern port city's AHEPA hospital due to injuries sustained on the job on July 21, the state-run Athens-Macedonia News Agency has reported.

A 25-year-old man who has served three-and-a-half years in jail for a robbery at the AHEPA Hospital in Thessaloniki in 2010 was cleared by an appeals court in the northern port city on Friday.