Shootings at a shipping company in Glyfada - Information about one dead and two injured, the perpetrator is dead
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
Hellenic Police-ELAS was called for an emergency incident in Glyfada, as according to information there were shots fired at a shipping company.
According to information at the shipping company in question at Fleming and Artemisiou streets, a person with a gun entered the offices and shot.
The same unconfirmed information states that one person lost his life from the shootings, while there are also two wounded, with the condition of one being very serious.
According to information, the perpetrator is a 70-year-old former employee of the company originally from Egypt.
According to the same information, the person in question remains under arrest for this and the intervention of EKAM (Special Suppression Anti-Terrorism Unit) is expected. In fact, according to information from ELAS, due to the ongoing police operation, traffic in the area of Glyfada was stopped on the following roads:
Witness statement
"I suddenly heard a shot and went outside. I thought we were all going to get killed. It's getting messy here. Police and ambulance have arrived. The intruder has kept the workers inside. We don't know exactly what happened. They don't tell us much," said a witness, who is a stone's throw away from the shipping company where the shots were fired.
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