Three people, two men and one woman, in their early 20s were killed and a fourth person, a man, was seriously injured in a car crash in the northeastern Athens suburb of Holargos early yesterday. Authorities said that the accident happened on Anastaseos Street at about 6.30 a.m. when the car in which the four were traveling slammed into the back of a parked bus. Firefighters had to remove the occupants from the vehicle. Three were pronounced dead at the scene and the fourth was rushed to the hospital. None of the four was named.

The driver of a truck carrying 6,500 camping gas canisters, 500 liters of kerosene and 90 liters of natural gas was arrested in Iraklio, Crete, on Saturday, after illegally boarding a passenger ferry with the vehicle. It is against the law for dangerous substances, such as natural gas, to be transported on passenger ferries. In this case, the driver had boarded the ferry, which was carrying some 1,500 passengers, in Piraeus. The truck and its contents were seized.

A Greek cargo ship hijacked last week was being taken toward the Somali coast but its crew members remained unharmed, the ship’s operating company said Saturday. “The master of the vessel has reported that the crew are unharmed and the vessel is sailing toward the Somali coast,” Athens-based Meadway Shipping and Trading Inc said in a statement. Meadway Inc said the cargo ship, Delvina, was hijacked early on Thursday northeast of the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean. It had been sailing from Ukraine to Mombasa in Kenya. (AFP)

In the latest incident of its kind, an aircraft of the EU border patrol agency Frontex received a warning from Turkish radar while flying in Greek air space on Sunday, Greece’s National Defense General Staff said. The Estonian airplane had been helping to spot illegal immigrants and was flying over the tiny island of Farmakonisi when a Turkish radar operator warned the pilot he was in Turkish air space.

Athens MP Adonis Georgiadis was elected the general secretary of the Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) on Saturday during a meeting of the party’s central committee. In his speech, LAOS leader Giorgos Karatzaferis intimated that his party would be willing to work with New Democracy to force early elections next March over the reelection of Karolos Papoulias as president.

Acting on a tip-off, police on Crete arrested two men, aged 24 and 21, in Geropotamos, near Rethymno, yesterday after discovering a cache of weapons in a farmhouse. Officers seized two Kalashnikov assault rifles, an M1 rifle, several handguns, a hand grenade, 62 detonators and 1,300 bullets. The arms will be sent to police central headquarters so they can be examined by forensic scientists.

Police in Thessaloniki are looking for the driver of a silver Nissan Almera who knocked down and injured a 75-year-old pedestrian and then abandoned him. Officers said the incident occurred in the Stavroupoli area of the city at about 7.45 p.m. on Friday.