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Four unconscious people pulled from ruins of building near Acropolis in Athens — TimesLIVE
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TimesLIVE is a South African online newspaper that started as The Times daily newspaper. The Times print version was an offshoot of Sunday Times, to whose subscribers it was delivered gratis; non-subscribers paid R2.50 per edition in the early years. It has been owned by Arena Holdings since November 2019 and is the second-largest news website in South Africa.
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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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Rescuers are searching for four people after a building collapsed in a blast in Athens' tourist district of Plaka
Rescuers pulled four unconscious people from the rubble of a collapsed building near the Acropolis in Athens after a powerful explosion. Authorities believe a major gas leak may have caused the blast.