Combustibility and flammability

Attack with gas canisters at entrance of apartment building

An apartment building in Palaio Faliro, southern Attica, was targeted on Sunday at dawn.

According to the police, unidentified persons placed gas canisters at the entrance of the apartment building at approximately 3.30 a.m.

The explosion blackened the building's entrance. The police found remains of flammable material containers at the scene. 

Small explosive device goes off outside Kypseli apartment block

Police are investigating an attack with a homemade explosive device made of a plastic container and flammable liquid outside an apartment building in the district of Kypseli, central Athens, early Saturday morning.

The device went off at 5.20 a.m. at the entrance of the building located on Patriarchou Ieremia Street, police said.

Fiery explosion erupts on ship at major global port in Dubai

A fiery explosion erupted on a container ship anchored in Dubai at one of the world's largest ports late on July 7, authorities said, sending tremors across the commercial hub of the United Arab Emirates.

There were no immediate reports of casualties, and it was unclear what triggered the blast.

Anarchist group claims last month's Kolonaki bomb

An anarchist group calling itself the Iconoclastic Sect has claimed responsibility in a post on a Spanish website for the explosion last month outside the church of Aghios Dionysios in the upmarket Kolonaki district of central Athens.

The post was dated last Wednesday and said that the attack was aimed not only against the Church of Greece but society as a whole.