A ferry has been evacuated in a tourist hotspot filled with Brits after a reported bomb threat. An alarm was raised at the port of Piraeus this afternoon following a bomb threat targeting the passenger and vehicle ferry Blue Star 1, which was due to depart on its scheduled route to Syros, Patmos, Leros, Kos and Rhodes.
According to information from the Hellenic Coast Guard, an unidentified person called a passenger on board the vessel, warning that a bomb was about to explode. The passenger immediately alerted the crew, who then notified the port authorities.
For safety reasons, all 875 passengers were evacuated from the ferry. There were also 83 crew members on board.
A team of bomb disposal experts is currently carrying out searches of the vessel to establish whether the threat is credible.
The ferry’s departure remains pending until the necessary security checks have been completed, the daily newspaper Avgi reports.
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