Automated teller machine

Police on Crete are seeking the perpetrators behind a blast targeting a bank ATM outside a supermarket in the seaside village of Maleme, near the port of Hania, late on Friday.

The assailants used a homemade explosive device to blow open the machine before making off with an unknown sum of cash.

Police in Thessaloniki said on Thursday that they traced two suspected members of a ring believed to have tampered with nine ATMs which allowed them to steal people's card details, clone their cards and make multiple withdrawals from their accounts over the past two years.

The suspects, aged 33 and 41, are both foreign nationals, police said, without revealing further details.

According to Hawks spokesman Capt Dineo Sekgotodi, he appeared in the Middelburg Regional Court on Thursday, reports Lowvelder.

Stanchev who originates from Bulgaria, was arrested in February 2016 by the Hawks' Serious Commercial Crime Investigation unit following investigations that successfully linked him to over six hundred counts of theft and fraud charges.

Unidentified assailants blew up an ATM machine attached to the entrance of a supermarket in Ilioupoli, a suburb in southern Athens, early Friday morning.

Police said the perpetrators of the dawn attack at the corner of Neftonos and Archimidou streets used an explosive device with dynamite.

A total of 50 people have been arrested in the streets around the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the past few weeks, as part of police's ongoing efforts to tackle crime in the area.

From October 20 to November 12, 49 suspects were arrested for drug-related offenses leading to 43 case files, six of which concern felonies, according to police data.

Unidentified robbers blew open a bank ATM in front of a grocery store in Paeania, eastern Attica, in the early hours of Saturday, causing serious damage to the machine and the store but no injuries.

Police believe the assailants provoked the blast by channeling flammable gas into the machine before igniting it.

They fled with an undetermined sum.

Two men armed with guns threatened the guards and driver of an armored truck making a cash delivery at a mall in northern Athens on Friday.

The incident occurred shortly before 1 p.m. at the Avenue shopping center in the suburb of Maroussi as a cash delivery was taking place for restocking an ATM on the premises.

Thieves blew up an ATM in the Zheleznik district of Stara Zagora at 3 o'clock in the morning. The perpetrators were several people with masks. They acted very quickly because the noise of the explosion echoed across the neighborhood. They managed to take four boxes of money and the amount is estimated at between 50,000 and 60,000 leva, bTV reports.

An explosion at a bank ATM outside a supermarket in Pyrgos, southern Greece, in the early hours of Thursday, caused damage to the façade of the store but no injuries.

According to the police, the unknown perpetrators channeled flammable gas into the machine before igniting it to cause the explosion.

They fled with an undetermined sum of cash from the ATM.

Police have detained a woman in the southern Turkish province of Antalya after she lost her temper over a broken ATM and attacked a nearby office and people. Click through for the story in photos...