University student Despoina Billia places candles on the ground next to a toy train set at a makeshift memorial for a deadly 2023 rail disaster, outside parliament where Greece's new President Constantine Tassoulas was sworn in, in Athens, Greece, Thursday, March 13, 2025. The names of the victims are written in red paint on the ground, while the banner in the background reads "Coverup President - Tassoulas Unwanted." (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

A bomb strikes near the Athens offices of the Greek railway company. No injuries reported

by · CityNews

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — A suspected bomb exploded Friday outside the Athens offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway company. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Police cordoned off the area, along a major avenue in the Greek capital, where residents said a loud explosion had occurred Friday night.

Local media said a newspaper and a news website had received an anonymous call shortly before the blast, warning that a bomb had been planted outside the railway company offices.

The explosion comes amid widespread public anger over a major railway disaster in 2023, in which dozens of people were killed when a freight train and a passenger train heading in opposite directions were accidentally put on the same track.

The Associated Press