Greek Debt Crisis Continues As Riots Rock Athens

Riot Police Go Up In Flames As Greek Protesters Armed With Petrol Bombs And Sledgehammers Rampage Through Athens -- Daily Mail

* Thousands demonstrate against fresh wave of austerity measures
* Yobs in gas masks smash up pavements and hurl rubble at officers
* Two-day general strike comes after Government agrees more cuts
* EU leaders deepen anger by ordering Greece to slash another 325million euros by next week
* Two Greek ministers resign in protest over latest demands

Rioters armed with petrol bombs and sledgehammers clashed with police in Athens today as unions launched a two-day general strike against a fresh wave of austerity measures.

Scores of youths, in hoods and gas masks, smashed up marble paving stones in the Greek capital's main Syntagma Square before hurling the rubble at riot police, who responded with tear gas.

Some officers were set alight as demonstrators attacked them with petrol bombs.

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