Police seize copper cables and stripping equipment in a raid, as thefts targeting public infrastructure and utility networks rise across Greece

Seventy complaints in a year, extensive damage to public infrastructure and mounting safety concerns prompt calls for coordinated police patrols and a crackdown on scrap-metal trafficking

Security footage has helped investigators reconstruct the movements of three suspects accused of stealing a gas pipe from an Athens building, triggering a leak that led to a devastating explosion five and a half hours later.

Police and fire brigade investigators said the blast that killed six people, including a pregnant woman, could have been prevented if the main gas supply valve had been shut off before a copper pipe was cut and immediately afterwards

Three suspects identified and arrested over alleged break-in and damage to an internal copper gas pipe, as footage captures a school van carrying 12 children passing moments before the Plaka blast