One injured as several firebombs explode in Athens

Source: AP

ATHENS -- Three firebombs exploded at different locations in central Athens on Monday morning, the AP is quoting local authorities.

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One woman was wounded as she emerged from her apartment, located in an apartment building near the political office of the country's Transparency general secretary.
The woman was transferred to a hospital for treatment of slight burns.

All three devices consisted of camping gas canisters, police said in a statement.

The other devices detonated several hours earlier, one outside a building housing the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research and one outside a branch of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change Ministry.

Firebomb attacks against government offices, banks or symbols of wealth are common in Greece, where several small, generally anarchist groups operate.