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Microsoft Office In Athens Attacked; No Injuries Reported

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Microsoft's offices in Athens were attacked by assailants who rammed the front of the building with a van and then set off a device that burned the building's entrance, the Associated Press reports. There were no injuries in the attack on the office, which is in Maroussi, a suburb north of the city.

The AP says there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack and that authorities received no warning.

According to the AP story, police said three people were inside the van. The attackers forced two security guards out of the entrance to the building, then reversed the van and smashed into the front door, and then triggered an "incendiary device" that apparently consisted of camping gas canisters and several containers of gasoline. The van had been stolen about 40 days earlier.

Microsoft has about 125 employees in Greece.