Ex-Greek PM Papademos hurt in car blast

ATHENS: Greek former prime minister Lucas Papademos was hurt Thursday when an explosive device went off inside his car in Athens, state TV said.
State TV ERT said Papademos had chest and leg wounds and trouble breathing, but his life was not in danger.
Two of his guards were lightly hurt, ERT said.
"We are shocked. I wish to condemn this heinous act," media minister Nikos Pappas told the station.
ERT said Papademos, prime minister from 2011 to 2012, had been targeted by a letter bomb.
A police source said a number of people had been hurt but could not say if Papademos himself was in the car at the time of the blast.
Papademos, 69, a former Bank of Greece governor, was in an armoured car, ERT said.
He headed an interim coalition government at the height of Greece's fiscal crisis that in 2012 negotiated a massive write-down of the country's privately-held debt.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
In March, Greek anarchist group Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei mailed a letter bomb that injured a secretary at the International Monetary Fund in Paris.
The Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei had earlier claimed responsibility for an explosive device, also sent from Greece, that was discovered by the police at the offices of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble.
The group, which is considered a terror organisation by Washington, sent letter bombs to foreign embassies in Greece and to European leaders in 2010. — AFP