Bus hijacked in Athens
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Athens: Two gunmen thought to be Albanians hijacked a Greek bus with 23 passengers on board yesterday in Athens and demanded a 1 million euro as ransom and a plane to fly them to Russia.
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ATHENS : Gunmen holding seven passengers hostage in a bus near Athens after releasing 16 in stages threatened to blow up the vehicle Thursday unless their demands for a ransom and safe conduct out of the country were met.
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A hostage on a hijacked Greek bus said  in a mobile phone call from the vehicle Wednesday that her  captors wanted to fly to Russia and were armed with guns and  explosives.
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A Greek bus carrying about 27 people was hijacked today and shots were fired at police who surrounded it on the outskirts of Athens.
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Seven passengers have been released from the bus hijacked by two gunmen carrying 26 passengers on the outskirts of Athens. Shots were fired at police who surrounded it on the outskirts of Athens.
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A Greek police force faced what The Associated Press called its &quot;first test&quot; since undergoing intensive training for this past summer&#39;s Olympics when two armed men seized a bus full of passengers Wednesday in the country&#39;s fifth such hijacking since 1999.
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Unknown Gunmen seized a bus with about two dozen passengers aboard in Athens suburbs early on Wednesday, CNN reported. Greek police said the gunmen fired shots at the police who
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Two suspected Albanians armed with rifles and dynamite hijacked a packed passenger bus in Athens and warned they would "light the fuse" if a Thursday deadline for payment of a $1 million ransom was not met.
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Two armed men hijacked a bus carrying more than two dozen passengers early yesterday, threatening to blow it up with explosives unless they were taken to the airport and put on planes, police and government officials said.
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ATHENS (Greece): Greek police surrounded a bus filled with passengers that had been seized by gunmen in the Athens suburb of Marathon early on Wednesday, Greek police said.
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Athens - The two armed men who hijacked a commuter bus outside Athens for over 18 hours had no explosives on them despite their threats to blow up the bus, the Greek police chief said Thursday, after the stand-off ended peacefully.
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Two armed hijackers released another two men from a bus in Athens in a fourth batch, bringing the total number of the released hostage to 12 , including 6 men and 6 women, police said Wednesday.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Two armed hijackers have surrendered and released their hostages, 18 hours after seizing a bus near Athens, Greece.
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ATHENS, Greece - Two Albanian immigrants were charged Thursday with multiple counts of kidnapping and attempted murder following an 18-hour bus hijacking and hostage drama that ended peacefully, and the government appealed for Greeks not to strike back at
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Athens was hit by tragedy yesterday after seven schoolchildren died when their bus overturned following a collision on their way to a day out at the Paralympic Games.
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GREEK police are involved in an armed stand-off with hijackers who have seized a passenger bus in Athens and are demanding to fly to Russia.
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ATHENS, Greece - A hostage standoff ended near Athens, Greece (search), seemingly without a shot fired, nearly 19 hours after two gunmen seized a bus carrying 26 people and threatened to blow it up.