Controlled explosion

An army bomb disposal unit was working on Thursday morning to set off a controlled explosion that will neutralize a World War II 500lb bomb that was found the day before in the southern Athenian suburb of Glyfada. 

The unexploded ordnance was found during construction work at the old Elliniko airport, the site of a major property development project.

A controlled explosion took place

Bomb disposal experts destroyed a "suspicious" shoebox in a controlled explosion outside the town hall of Menidi in northern Attica late on Friday night.

Police said the box contained a shoe, a board, wires, and a piece of cloth.
 

Police bomb disposal experts defused an explosive device comprising a hand grenade on Saturday after receiving an anonymous caller telephoned a threat that the bomb would detonate outside the police precinct in Dafni, southern Athens.

The bomb was found in a bag that had been placed in a small park behind the police precinct. 

An explosive device was discovered in a backpack outside the entrance of the Labor Ministry on Stadiou street, central Athens early on Monday, after an anonymous call to Efymerida ton Syntakton newspaper at 1.20 a.m. warned that a bomb would go off after 40 minutes.

Bomb disposal experts were called to the scene and subsequently detonated the device in three controlled explosions.