The gunman reportedly committed suicide after opening fire at the shipping company’s offices, killing three other company workers – The Chronicle of the Tragedy
Reporting: Makis Synodinos
The outcome of the armed attack on a shipping company in Glyfada, with the perpetrator being a 70-year-old retired former employee of the same company, was tragic.
The perpetrator, according to information, was found dead in the basement of the building and according to the same information, he allegedly committed suicide. His carbine was found next to him.
Information also states that the total number of dead is four, one the perpetrator and three employees of the company.
Among the dead workers are two men and one woman.
Everyone was in the basement of the building.
Also, the police forces freed female workers who had hidden in the toilets of the building.
A medical examiner is rushing to the scene, according to the same information
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The police were alerted at 10:20 on Monday morning when there was a call about shots fired at a shipping company at the junction of Artemisiou 2 and Fleming streets in Glyfada.
The men of EKAM in collaboration with OPKE entered the ground floor of the building at 11:15 in the morning and from there they went up to the roof. In the investigations they carried out in the building, they found in the basement, according to all the information, the bodies of the perpetrator and his three victims.
From what has become known, the perpetrator was allegedly a 70-year-old man of Egyptian origin, a former employee of the company.
According employee testimonials this is a pensioner, who was called “Mars”. As soon as they heard the shots, those workers who could ran to escape and went outside.
According to the testimonies of workers, the gunman was a foreman on an island belonging to the owner of the shipping company in Petaliou, Chalkida.
Always according to the available information, the attacker started shooting on the ground floor of the company, and then went up to the other floors.
He had with him a short-barreled carbine and a revolver.
The scene was immediately cordoned off by the police, while patrol cars, ambulances and fire engines rushed to the scene.
Due to the operation of ELAS, traffic has been interrupted at the following points:
- Poseidon St. and Fleming Square
- L. Karamanli and Calypso
- Artemisiou and Rodiris
Video of the departure of EKAM from the scene.
Source: Skai
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