Parcel containing bomb materials sent to Greek stock exchange

ATHENS (Reuters) - A package containing dynamite and cables was sent to Greece's stock exchange on Thursday but was safely detonated by the bomb disposal unit, police said. The device, held together by clothes-pins, lacked a mechanism to set it off, so would not have exploded by itself, a police official said. A stock exchange official said the package was discovered mid-morning at the building's entrance but did not affect the trading session, which continued without interruption. Shares on the Athens stock index were up 2.2 percent in afternoon trade. ... Read More http://ift.tt/1vAa56Z