6 killed in Greece building collapse following explosion

KABUL (Pajhwok): Six people, including four US citizens, were killed after an explosion caused a two-storey residential building to collapse in central Athens, the capital of Greece, a media report said on Sunday.

Reuters, quoting the Greek Fire Service, reported that the explosion occurred in Plaka, a tourist area in central Athens, on Friday, after which the residential building collapsed.

Vasilis Vathrakogiannis, a spokesman for the Greek Fire Service, said rescue teams used sniffer dogs, cameras and sensors to recover the bodies of six people from beneath the rubble.

According to officials, the victims included an elderly couple who lived in one of the building’s apartments and four US tourists staying in another apartment.