Woman who has a bomb murdered after she explodes before she can place it outside the bank, according to the police

A woman in Greece was killed on Saturday after a bomb police said she had been exploiting in her hands.

The 38 -year -old woman, who was not publicly identified, apparently carried the bomb to place it outside a bank in the city of the Northern Behesaloniki around 5 am local time when she shot. Several windows and vehicles were damaged by the explosion.

“It seems that she wore an explosive device and planned to plant a bank’s ATM,” said a police officer to Reuters. “Something went wrong and exploded in his hands.”

The woman died from her wounds in the hospital.

Police said the woman had a criminal record related to drugs and prostitution and that she had been involved in at least one robbery and theft in the past. The division of the Greek police for organized crime was investigating the incident, while the authorities were also investigating whether the women could have had ties with extreme left groups.

Greece has seen occasional bombings, as well as directed murders, attributed to several groups of organized crimes. The country also has a long history of politically motivated violence that dates back to the 1970s, with domestic extremist groups that carry out small -scale bombardments that generally cause damage, but rarely cause injuries.

While the most active groups in the 1980s and 1990s, whose preferred objectives tended to be politicians, foreign companies and diplomats, have been dismantled, new small groups have emerged.

Last year, a man who believes he was trying to gather a bomb was killed when the device he was doing exploded in a central department of Athens. A woman inside the apartment was seriously injured. It was not clear what its planned objective could have been.

The explosion had led the Minister of Citizen Protection Michalis Chrisochoidis to warn of a new emerging generation of domestic extremists.

In April, a new group called the revolutionary class struggle attributed the responsibility of a bomb that exploded in the center of Athens near the offices of Hellenic Train, the main operator of Railway Services of Greece and the planting of another bomb near the Ministry of Labor in early February.

The explosion near the train offices resulted in limited damage to the building and without injuries. It had been preceded by an anonymous call to local media 40 minutes before the warning of the explosion on the device, which led the police to evacuate and cordon the area.

The group that affirmed the responsibility said that the bombing was part of an armed struggle against the State.

The bombardment in the trains offices occurred shortly after the second anniversary of the worst railway disaster in Greece, in which 57 people were killed and dozen more wounded when a cargo train and a passenger train that were headed in opposite directions were accidentally put on the same way.

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