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October 21, 1972: NAMC YS-11 of Olympic Airways crashes in Athens. 37 people are killed. September 8, 1974: TWA Flight 841 crashes into the Ionian Sea. All 79 passengers and 9 crew members were killed. November 23, 1976: NAMC YS-11 of Olympic Airways from Athens to Kozani crashes under fog into a mountain near Sarantaporo. Fatalities: 50. [3]
They arrived in Athens the same day (5 August) from Beirut, Lebanon in order to make the attack. They had traveled to Athens previously on 3 August from Benghazi, Libya to survey the transit lounge. [12] Their orders were to attack Israel-bound passengers of any nationality travelling by any airline. [13]
[27] One day after the event, on 8 August, AEK Athens issued a press release in which they claimed that their fan was killed by “professional killers, organised criminals who crossed the country and arrived in New Philadelphia from Zagreb to join forces here with Greek criminal accomplices with the sole purpose of killing”. [28]
Saunders was attacked and shot dead by two men on a motorcycle while driving through Athens traffic on his way to work at the British Embassy at 07:48 on 8 June 2000. 17 November (17N) claimed responsibility for the killing in a proclamation dated March 2000 and published in Eleftherotypia on 9 June 2000.
Deputy Chief of Mission at the Turkish Embassy in Athens, Ömer Haluk Sipahioğlu, is shot and killed on an Athens street. Authorities believe three men in a car pulled alongside the vehicle of the second-ranking Turkish diplomat in Greece and opened fire, killing him. [45] [46] 28 May 1997: Athens: 1 -
ATHENS/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Egyptian electrician Mahmoud Shalabi was the only person from his hometown to survive when a fishing trawler crammed with migrants capsized off Greece a year ago, killing ...
In Israel, a frightened woman runs down the street cradling a young girl in her arms as a car behind her is engulfed in a ball of flames from an unprecedented surprise attack by Hamas militants.
At approximately 5:30 (UTC) on 19 July 2010, three men dressed as security personnel and wearing bullet-proof vests arrived at Sokratis Giolias's residence in the suburbs of Athens. Using the intercom, the men then summoned Giolias out into the street from his home under the pretense that his car was being stolen.