A woman was killed in a deadly early-morning explosion after a bomb she was allegedly carrying detonated in her hands outside a bank in Thessaloniki, Greece.
The 38-year-old was reportedly trying to plant the device outside a bank branch at the intersection of Platonos and Agios Dimitriou around 5 a.m. local time on Saturday, May 3, when it exploded prematurely in a nearby parking lot. Authorities believe she was targeting an ATM before something went wrong.
Emergency responders rushed the woman to Ippokrateio Hospital, but she died from her injuries shortly after arrival.
“It appears that she was carrying an explosive device and planned to plant it at a bank’s ATM. Something went wrong and exploded in her hands,” a senior police official told Reuters.
Photos from the blast site show the aftermath of the explosion, with shattered storefronts, damaged vehicles, and debris scattered across the scene. Windows were blown out, and police cordoned off the area for forensic analysis.
According to local reports, the woman had a criminal record and was closely associated with a jailed anti-authoritarian figure tied to previous bank robberies and bombings. In a separate incident last year, the same group is suspected of sending a parcel bomb to the Thessaloniki Court of Appeal.
She had been arrested in the past alongside the same figure and was once caught carrying a Kalashnikov rifle in a backpack, police sources told eKathimerini.
Authorities from the Organized Crime Directorate and anti-terrorism units are now investigating the bombing as part of a broader crackdown on extremist groups operating in northern Greece.
The Ministry of Citizen Protection has yet to release an official statement.
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There are lots of nuts around, but I think this one takes the cake!!! Talk about an early morning \”boom\”!!!!
Some poetic justice…