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Grenade explosion kills Kurdish man

Police in Thessaloniki were on Thursday investigating a possible terrorist connection to a 35-year-old Kurdish man who was killed in a large explosion that occurred in a basement apartment in the city?s neighborhood of Triandria.

It appears the man died when a hand grenade went off in his hands but an investigation is yet to confirm the cause of the blast.

A search of the apartment turned up several more hand grenades and two machine guns.

It remained unclear whether the 35-year-old is connected to Turkish trade unionist Gulaferit Unsal, whose extradition to Germany was ordered by a Greek court in August.

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