A woman has died in Greece after a bomb exploded in her hands, police say. They say she was standing outside a bank in the northern city of Thessaloniki when the device went off early on Saturday. Officers suspect she may have been planning to plant it next to a cash machine.

A woman has died in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki after a bomb she was carrying exploded in her hands.

A woman in Greece died on May 3 after a bomb exploded in her hands. The woman, 38, who is yet to be named, was killed in the blast in the popular city of Thessaloniki. Police and forensics are investigating amid reports that the woman was attempting to place the bomb near a cash machine at a bank in the country's second-most populous city.