Bomb disposal

A package that arrived by mail at the Greek Foreign Ministry on Friday and was deemed suspicious contained an electronic blood pressure monitor, according to police sources cited by state-run news agency ANA-MPA.

The parcel raised the alarm at the ministry which was evacuated by police earlier in the day.

Greek police evacuated the Foreign Ministry in central Athens on Friday after a suspicious package arrived through the mail, sources said.

A bomb disposal unit was on its way to check the parcel.

About 70 employees were waiting outside the ministry. 

A suspicious package that was spotted in the Evelpidon Street court complex in downtown Athens on Friday turned out morning to be crude replica of an explosive device.

Police cordoned off the area and bomb squad experts were called in when the brown paper parcel was spotted outside a door used mainly by lawyers.

Officers of the police bomb disposal unit in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, removed five old hand grenades found in an apartment after its former occupant, an elderly man, died.

The grenades were discovered by the man's brother during a visit to the apartment and he notified authorities.

THE PLANNED DISPOSAL of an unexploded World War II bomb today will force a mass evacuation around Berlin's central railway station and likely spark transport chaos in the German capital.

Trains, trams, buses and even some flights at the city's Tegel airport will be halted when a police bomb squad starts defusing the British 500-kilogramme bomb unearthed on a building site.

The Greek Police (ELAS) on Monday closed the Athens metro stations Aegaleo and Agia Marina after receiving telephone calls warning that explosive devices had been placed at both stations.

Officers of the country's bomb disposal squad were dispatched the to station to investigate.

More than 20,000 people were evacuated in the Italian town of Fano on the Adriatic coast after an unexploded World War II missile was discovered during a construction project, Radio Television News reported.
 
Authorities evacuated people from all residential homes and public buildings, as well as from the local hospital.

About 12,000 people have been evacuated in the eastern German city of Oranienburg due to a bomb from the Second World War, DPA reports.

A 900-meter radius was evacuated after a 250-kilogram US bomb was discovered during a systematic search in the city at the end of November.

A team of six sappers work on the bomb disposal.

A suspicious object was discovered at the Lausanne central station on Sunday afternoon.

Bomb disposal teams arrived at the scene to check the package.

All train traffic has been suspended, and an adjacent metro station was also closed.

Some 70,000 people in Frankfurt will have to leave their homes this weekend in one of the biggest such evacuations in post-war Germany, police said Aug. 30, after an unexploded World War-II bomb nicknamed "blockbuster" was uncovered.