Former Greek PM Papademos recovering well after booby-trap blast
Former Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos was recovering well from injuries caused by a booby-trapped package exploding in his car on Thursday, with doctors saying he would stay in hospital for two more days.
Papademos, 69, who was caretaker prime minister for a few months at the peak of the debt crisis five years ago, did not have life-threatening injuries, they said.
He was being treated for superficial wounds to his abdomen and a deeper injury to his right leg from the blast, the worst act of violence against a politician in Greece for years.
"His medical condition is progressing well. He is still in the intensive care unit and will remain there for the next 48 hours, there is no cause for concern," a health official told reporters outside the Evangelismos hospital in central Athens.
Doctors treating him told reporters he was awake, breathing well with no need for an oxygen mask and had had a 15-minute chat with President Prokopis Pavlopoulos.
"The injury to his right upper leg was the deepest wound, it reached muscle tissue," one of the doctors said.
Police were trying to trace the trail of the envelope and the post office from where it was sent to the Academy of Athens, where Papademos is president.
There was still no immediate claim of responsibility.
Source: reuters.com
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