A 45-year-old kiosk owner was gunned down in the early hours of Tuesday in the Ano Liossia district of Athens by robbers wielding a Kalashnikov rifle.
The gunmen attempted to hold-up the kiosk owner at about 1.30am, but the victim resisted and fired at them with a hunting rifle. They retaliated and fired nine shots against the victim, injuring him fatally, before speeding off in a blue car that later proved to be stolen.
The car was spotted at dawn Tuesday and was chased by police patrol cars and motorcycles, but the gunmen abandoned it and escaped on foot.
Police surmise that robbery was the motive, since all money had been taken from the kiosk, while police also found mobile phone cards and cigarettes scattered in the vicinity.
Earlier, two gunmen stormed a pharmacy in Maroussi and injured the pharmacist in the shoulder during their escape.
The pharmacist's mother, who was in the pharmacy at the time of the hold-up, grabbed one of the robbers and pulled off his mask, while the son gave chase to the gunmen outside, where one of them shot him twice before escaping.
source: ANA-MPA
