89-year-old man arrested for allegedly wounding at least 4 people with a shotgun in Greek capital | CNN

Police in Greece on Tuesday arrested an 89-year-old man who allegedly opened fire with a shotgun in a social security office and a courthouse in central Athens, wounding at least four people. Law enforcement authorities said the suspect was arrested near the city of Patra, some 130 miles (210 kilometers) west of the Greek capital. The gunman initially opened fire at the social security office, wounding an employee, police said. Police officers who arrived at the scene treated the man, but the gunman fled the scene. Local media aired security camera footage that it said was from a local store near the social security office, which showed a man walking calmly across the street carrying what appears to be a short-barreled shotgun in his right hand. The same man was suspected of later opening fire on the ground floor of a court building in another part of central Athens, with several people wounded there, police said, adding that authorities had found the shotgun. Television footage showed ambulance crews transporting at least three people from the courthouse to waiting ambulances. The head of the Athens Judicial Employees Union, Stratis Dounias, said that initial information indicated

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