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Athens News Agency: News in English, 10-04-04
CONTENTS
[01] PM's message for Easter
[02] Two dead from fireworks mishaps
[01] PM's message for Easter
Prime Minister George Papandreou issued a message for Easter, noting
that "he ressurection is closely connected with the hope, power of joy
and the beginning of the spring. Despite whatever difficulties, I know
we will succeed. We will succeed together to make a creative Greece.
Allow me to wish everyone good health, happiness and strength".
[02] Two dead from fireworks mishaps
A 21-year-old man was killed on Saturday night and another man was
seriously injured in the village of Karterado on the island Santorini
island while attempting to construct fireworks for the celebration of
the midnight Easter Saturday Mass. In a separate incident at
Firostefani, also on Santorini, a 28-years-old man was seriously
injured under the same circumstances. Finally, a 25-year-old man died
in a car explosion in the southern Peloponnese prefecture of Messinia
on Saturday after oxygen-filled balloons he was transporting ignited
under unknown circumstances. The man's body was found charred.
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