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British man and Greek wife 'killed in Athens gas leak explosion'
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- Sep 26, 2026, 9:18 PM UTC
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Capital and largest city of Greece
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece. A significant coastal urban area in the Mediterranean, Athens is also the capital of the Attica region and is the southernmost capital on the European mainland. With its urban area's population numbering over 3.6 million, it is the eighth-largest urban area in the European Union (EU). The Municipality of Athens, which constitutes a small administrative unit of the entire urban area, had a population of 643,452 in 2021, within its official limits, and a land area of 38.96 square kilometres.
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An elderly British man and his Greek wife among six are believed to have died after an explosion caused a three-storey building to collapse in central Athens, with a gas leak suspected to be behind the blast, Sky News reported.
A British man and his Greek wife are believed to be among those killed in a building collapse caused by an explosion from a gas leak in Athens, along with four Americans.
Rescuers searching through the rubble of a two-story house that collapsed in Athens’ Plaka district recovered six bodies on Saturday.