Homemade bomb targets Greek ministry

The bomb, made of at least five gas canisters, exploded in the early hours of Monday morning, causing significant damage to the building’s ground floor and a car parked nearby, but there were no human casualties.

“There was no warning call and the risk of someone being injured was big, as the building is centrally located,” said an unnamed police official.

Administrative Reform Minister Dimitris Reppas recently announced a series of measures to slash thousands of government workers.

Small bomb attacks against government buildings and banks have surged in the debt-ridden country, after Athens began imposing harsh austerity measures as a pre-condition to two rounds of bailouts by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.

Greece is battling an economic crisis that has sent unemployment soaring and salaries and pensions sinking. Hundreds of thousands of Greeks have lost their jobs over the past year. Despite austerity cuts and the bailout funds, the country has been in recession since 2009.

No responsibility has yet been claimed for the attack, but police suspects a new group called “February 12 Movement,” which last week took responsibility for a time-bomb found on an underground train on February 25.

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