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A 40-year-old Albanian man was shot by Greek police after attempting to rob a bank branch in Athens.
The Albanian man managed to take an unknown amount of money from the bank's cash registers on 19 Achilleos Street, Omonia. However, while trying to escape, a bank employee activated the alarm, alerting the police.
The members of the special forces known locally as the DIA team and the patrol cars of the Immediate Action Unit located the suspect at the intersection of Lenorman and Palamide streets, Greek media say.
According to the police, at that location, the man threatened the officers with a knife, leading one of them to shoot him with their service weapon, injuring him. The injured man was taken to Evangelismos Hospital, and a preliminary investigation has been launched into the incident.
The assailant was hit by four bullets, three in the abdomen and one in the hip.
An eyewitness who overheard the officers ordering the suspect to stop speaking in front of the television cameras said, "The officer was telling him to stop, and he wouldn't. From there, I heard two shots and nothing else."