A powerful explosion has gone off at Greece's Ministry of Press and Information in Athens, causing extensive damage but no injuries. The explosion on Saturday, the second in one week, caused panicked residents to run onto the street in the residential area that houses the ministry near central Athens. Police said the mechanical device went off nearly 12 minutes after an unknown caller contacted two private television stations, warning of the explosion, DPA reported. The bomb attack took place exactly one week after a leftist group claimed responsibility for another explosion outside the Greek Parliament, near the Monument of the Unknown Soldier. The leftist group, Fire Conspiracy Cells, said in a statement posted on the Internet that it targeted the building to hit "the well-secured temple of democracy."
Photo: Counter-terrorism squad experts look for bomb fragments outside the Parliament building in central Athens after a bomb exploded on Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010.
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