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Ex-Greece prime minister Lucas Papademos injured in car blast: Report

Former Greece prime minister Lucas Papademos was hurt on Thursday when an explosive device went off inside his car in Athens, state news agencies said.

|May 25, 2017, 22:45:25 IST

Athens: Former Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos was hurt on Thursday when an explosive device went off inside his car in Athens, state news agencies said.[caption id="attachment_3482071" align="alignleft" width="380"]

File image of former Greece prime minister Lucas Papademos. AP[/caption]State TV ERT said Papademos and his driver were both "seriously hurt" and rushed to a nearby hospital."We are shocked. I wish to condemn this heinous act," media minister Nikos Pappas told the station.ERT said Papademos, PM from 2011 to 2012, had been targeted by a letter bomb.A police source said a number of people had been hurt but could not say if Papademos himself was in the car at the time of the blast.

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