Bomb
Explodes in a Bank – Cyprus
24
March, 2014
An
explosion has occurred outside of a Bank of Cyprus branch in
Limassol, according to sources enikos.gr
and SigmaLive.
The
blast was caused by an "improvised explosive device,"
according to an English translation of the SigmaLive report. A
YouTube
video available from NewsitCy Cyprus,
available above, appears to show the aftermath of the explosion.
Per
an initial Google translation of the enikos.gr article, "the
blast destroyed the window of a branch of the Bank and created small
fire which katasvistike from the Fire. The area has been blocked by
the Cypriot police." The enikos.gr story also reports an
additional explosion.
According
to The Guardian, there have been "no
reports of any injuries."
Cyprus yesterday
agreed to a levy on some deposits at the Bank of Cyprus,
Reuters reports.
"According
to information from our correspondent Elena Georgiou in Limassol, two
masked men broke into the main entrance of the bank and threw with
Liberian container with flammable material in the branch. Their
movements were recorded by closed circuit monitoring of the bank and
assessed by the police."
A
picture sent from the Twitter account @russian_market
claims to show the bank following the blast:
PHOTO
AFTER BOMB EXPLOSION AT BANK OF CYPRUS pic.twitter.com/oigilkBGQZ
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