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Greek army experts have defused 314 bombs in an underground storage room at the old Athens airport, which has been closed since 2001. As the Athens newspaper Kathimerini reported on Friday, citing experts from the landmine clearance battalion (TENX), the bombs dated back to World War II. They were stored 2 metres underground. “We are only alive by chance,” Giannis Konstantatos, mayor of the region, said on Greek radio. Above and next to the storage area there were airport facilities for eight decades and, after its closure, schools, kindergartens and, during the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, s…

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