Europe ; Bus Hijackers Hold 11 in Athens, Demand $1 Million
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As the standoff gripped the nation, Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis postponed his departure for a European Union summit in Brussels by one day until Thursday.
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A passenger was seen leaving a hijacked  Greek bus Wednesday five hours after two foreign gunmen seized  the vehicle carrying 26 passenger in an Athens suburb, a  Reuters correspondent at the scene said.
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Two armed men who hijacked a busload of hostages at gunpoint in the outskirts of Athens and demanded â¬1m (Â£690,000) ransom surrendered last night.
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A bus was hijacked today and shots were fired at police who surrounded it on the outskirts of Athens. Police did not know how many passengers were aboard the bus.
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Two armed hijackers seized a bus carrying 26 passengers on a highway from an Athens suburb on Wednesday, the Reuters news agency reports.
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Two foreign gunmen carrying explosives  hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers on Wednesday and  demanded to go to Russia, a freed hostage said.
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Greek police surrounded a bus filled with passengers that had been seized by gunmen in the Athens suburb of Marathon early Wednesday, Greek police said.
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Television viewers around the world watched a drama unfold in Athens on Wednesday morning, when two unknown hijackers took hostage 26 Greek bus passengers and threatened to detonate the bus.
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Armed special forces police surround the bus at the end of a hijack siege in eastern Athens early Thursday, Dec. 16, 2004 in this image taken from television.
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ATHENS, Greece - There were Patriot missiles, citywide surveillance cameras, a chemical-sniffing blimp and a $1.5 billion price tag.
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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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Two gunmen thought to be Albanians  hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers on Wednesday and  demanded a $1 million ransom and a plane to fly them to Russia.
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A Greek public bus with about 27 people aboard was hijacked Wednesday and shots were fired at police who surrounded it on the outskirts of Athens, police and bus company officials said.
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ATHENS, Greece -- Gunmen have seized a public bus near the Greek capital of Athens and are holding about 25 passengers hostage. Authorities have surrounded the Athens-Marathon bus that was seized early Wednesday morning, Greek police told news agencies.
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Two gunmen thought to be Albanians hijacked a Greek bus with 26 passengers on Wednesday and demanded a $1 million ransom and a plane to fly them to Russia.
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Two gunmen who hijacked a Greek bus  carrying 26 passengers on Wednesday want to go to Athens  airport to leave the country, the head of the bus company said.
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The total cost of Athens Olympics was nearly 9.0 billion euros (11.5 billion US dollars), almost double the amount forecast a year before the Games, Greece&#39;s Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis said on Friday.