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Construction company AVAX Group gave a tour to press representatives on Thursday of the Katehaki metro tunnel, where work is being carried out for Line 4 of Athens metro.

The first 700 meters of tunnel has already been opened by the first of the two tunnel boring machines deployed. The final destination is Evangelismos station, in central Athens.

The Council of State has upheld a petition to suspend work on Evangelismos station of the Athens metro's extension until a proper technical and environmental impact report is filed. 

Minor scuffles broke out on Monday morning between the police and protesters near Exarchia Square in central Athens, where construction is underway for a new metro station. The protesters, upset about the felling of trees at the construction site, caused slight damage to the site's fence, prompting the police to use pepper spray to disperse them.

The first of two massive tunnel borers that will be put to work on the extension of the Athens metro is being assembled, the president of Attiko Metro SA announced on Tuesday.

In a post on social media, Nikos Tachiaos published photographs of the construction site on Katehaki Avenue in the Athens suburb of Ellinoroson where the assembly is taking place. 

The contract for the northern part of the E65 highway will be signed tomorrow, as announced by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Mr. Costas Karamanlis, speaking to Parapolitika 90.1 FM. "A very big effort has been made in the last 23 months, we have worked intensively to unblock projects that we found "stuck".

Line 4 of the Athens metro, which will start in Alsos Veikou and run to Goudi in the center of Athens, can go ahead as injunctions against the project were rejected by the Council of State on Tuesday.

A 30-year-old man whose body was found at a steep rocky area of the Tourkovounia hill range in central Athens on Wednesday afternoon is believed to have died from the fall, according to Thursday's forensic report.
The victim bore fatal multiple fractures consistent with a fall from a great height, while there were no indications of foul play, the report said.

Greek conglomerate GEK Terna is seen as the frontrunner for winning a tender to carry out preparatory works prior to construction for a new metro line in the Greek capital, according to sources.

The project concerns work on the first section of Line 4, which will connect downtown Athens from Alsos Veikou to Goudi.

A fire that broke out in a park in the middle of a residential part of northern Athens on Friday afternoon was mostly doused after a few hours by 25 firemen, a water-dumping airplane and two helicopters.

One fireman was lightly injured and was transferred to a hospital as a precaution.

More than 20 firemen, a water-dumping airplane and two helicopters were trying to put out a blaze in a park in the middle of a residential part of northern Athens on Friday afternoon.