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The New York Times writes:
"A powerful explosion, reportedly caused by a rocket, rocked the American Embassy in Athens Friday morning.
Reuters, quoting the police and embassy officials, said that a rocket had been fired at the complex but that no one was hurt. The private-television station MEGA also reported that the cause was a rocket.
'This was a rocket attack launched from a building across the street,' a senior police official told Reuters. 'It landed inside a toilet on the third floor of the embassy.'
Greek anti-terrorist officers were on the scene.
'This is an act of terrorism. We don’t know where from,' said the Attica police chief, Asimakis Golfis. 'There was a shell that exploded in the toilets of the building.' He said it had been fired from street level...."
Photo Credit: Police officers closed a street outside the U.S. embassy in Athens after a powerful explosion Friday morning. (Thanassis Stavrakis/Associated Press)
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