Coast guard patrol boats and aircraft last night scoured the areas around the islets of Kalymnos and Pserimos for two fishermen missing since Saturday after going fishing in an inflatable rowboat. Relatives of the men contacted Kalymnos port authority officials on Saturday evening after the two men failed to return.

Unidentified assailants hurled a Molotov cocktail bomb at a National Bank of Greece branch in Exarcheia, central Athens in the early hours of yesterday morning, causing minor damage. Witnesses said they saw two people fleeing the scene of the attack — the corner of Solonos and Ippocratous streets — on a motorcycle.

The popular songwriter Stavros Kouyioumtzis is to be be buried today after dying of a heart attack on Saturday at the age of 73. Kouyioumtzis had become a household name by the 1960s after writing songs for some of Greece’s most popular performers. “Stavros Kouyioumtzis was an artist whose work had a decisive impact on contemporary Greek song,” Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis said on Sunday. Kouyioumtzis is to be buried in the Thessaloniki suburb of Kalamaria.

A bus driver sustained minor leg injuries yesterday after being struck by a stray bullet while standing outside his vehicle at the terminus in the Athenian suburb of Menidi. It is thought that the shot was probably fired in the air by a local resident participating in celebrations to mark the end of the Carnival season.

A 52-year-old ticket inspector was arrested at a first-division soccer game in Thessaloniki on Sunday for allegedly failing to stamp tickets before giving them to an accomplice who then sold them on, police said yesterday. The security service firm employee had been working at Sunday’s Aris-OFI match when he was spotted and reported. A second suspect, upon whom Aris officials allegedly found five tickets, managed to flee. Two more tickets were found on the 52-year-old, police said.