The wife of a Serbian passenger who was partially sucked out of a broken airplane window mid-flight described harrowing scenes aboard a Ryanair flight from Thessaloniki, saying her husband hung halfway outside the aircraft for nearly two minutes before fellow passengers managed to pull him back in.

A rally was held outside the “Ippokratio” Hospital in Thessaloniki by cadres and friends of the New Democracy party, on the occasion of the death of Aphrodite Nestora’s mother.

Greek counter-terrorism police have launched a massive manhunt after a coordinated triple arson attack on ruling New Democracy officials in Thessaloniki left a politician's elderly mother dead and five others hospitalised in a chilling pre-dawn strike.