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Greek ex-PM Lucas Papademos injured in Athens car blast

AKIPRESS.COM - Former Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has been injured by an explosion inside his car in Athens, BBC News reported.

Reports say the blast may have been caused by a letter bomb.

Mr Papademos, 69, had leg, arm and stomach injuries, but officials said his condition was "not a cause for concern". His driver was also injured - but not seriously. Reports say at least one other person in the car was hurt.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for Thursday's blast.

Mr Papademos was appointed caretaker prime minister in November 2011 amid political and economic turmoil. He served in post until May 2012.

He has also served as vice-president of the European Central Bank.

Thursday's blast, in which a hospital official said two others in the vehicle were also hurt, was the most prominent since a booby-trapped package killed a guard for the then public order minister, Michalis Chrysohoidis, in 2010, Reuters reported.

Papademos, a low-key economist who is more of a technocrat than a politician, was catapulted to the forefront of Greece's debt crisis when he was coaxed into briefly becoming caretaker prime minister from late 2011 to May 2012, fusing a fragile governing coalition between socialists and conservatives.

The country remains in recession with the highest unemployment rate in Europe, and a stalled creditor review has interrupted payouts under its international bailout program, its third since 2010.

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