Explosion injures four people in Greek capital

ATHENS, Oct 21 (Reuters) - ‌Two ​police ​officers and two members of the public were injured in an ‌explosion at a building in central ⁠Athens, Greek police said on Wednesday.

All four ‌were taken away in ‌ambulances, police said in a statement.

A police official who declined to be named ​said the explosion occurred when officers reached the building in the ⁠area of Kolonos and picked up a backpack thought to ​contain drugs.

Police had earlier received a call from a resident and the ​manager of the building ‌notifying them of the suspected drugs at the building's entrance. ⁠They later found parts of an explosive device.

The bomb went off as police inspected ⁠the backpack and was potentially activated remotely, a ​second police official said.

The manager was also injured in the blast, which police are not ‌treating as a terrorist act, the first police official added. ‌The homicide unit is leading the ⁠investigation.

(Reporting by Angeliki ‌Koutantou and Yannis ​Souliotis; Writing by Ivana Sekularac; Editing by Hugh Lawson and David ‌Goodman)

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