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New Democracy-backed Costas Bakoyannis handily defeated ruling SYRIZA party's candidate, Nasos Iliopoulos, in the Athens mayoral race during the second round of local government elections across the country on Sunday, polling 65.2 percent to the latter's 34.75 percent, and with nearly 99 percent of the vote counted.

Three ATMs in the areas of Marathon and Megara were blown up by unknown suspects in the morning hours of Wednesday.

The second round of demolitions of illegal buildings in Attica started on Monday with the tearing down of a beach bar operated by a hotel on the beach of Anavyssos.