{"id":613370,"date":"2026-09-27T13:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613370\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T13:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T13:02:16","slug":"bodies-of-six-people-recovered-from-collapsed-building-in-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/613370\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of six people recovered from collapsed building in Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rescuers searching through the rubble of a two-story house that collapsed after an explosion in Athens’ historic Plaka district recovered six bodies on Sunday, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Documents and belongings found with four of the victims \u2014 two men and two women \u2014 indicated they were US citizens, according to Greek state broadcaster ERT and other local media reports.<\/p>\n

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A rescuer works at the scene following Friday’s powerful blast in Athens’ Plaka district. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

The blast on Saturday was believed to have been caused by a major gas leak, Athens Mayor Haris Doukas said. Neighbouring buildings were damaged and evacuated, he added.<\/p>\n

Plaka lies at the foot of the Acropolis, Greece’s most visited ancient monument.<\/p>\n

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A rescuer works at the scene following Friday’s powerful blast in Athens’ Plaka district. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Two women were injured in an adjacent building on Lysikratous Street, the fire department said. The search-and-rescue operation involved 30 firefighters and three dogs, and an investigation into the explosion was underway.<\/p>\n

Video from the scene showed rubble strewn across the street and parked cars crushed by falling debris. Resident Andreas Martzaklis said all those rescued from the adjacent building were tourists.<\/p>\n

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A rescuer works at the scene following Friday’s powerful blast in Athens’ Plaka district. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

The pastor of a nearby church said Sunday\u2019s service would be held outdoors because the building had been damaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rescuers searching through the rubble of a two-story house that collapsed after an explosion in Athens’ historic Plaka…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1081,42,43,40,38,41,39,1745],"class_list":["post-613370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-accident","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-uk-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}