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An 89-year-old man armed with a hunting rifle opened fire inside a Greek social security office in Athens on Tuesday, wounding an employee in the leg, authorities said.
The suspect then carried out a second shooting at a courthouse in the city, leaving four more people lightly injured.
The attack was reportedly sparked by problems with the man’s pension payments.
He was arrested a few hours after the shootings in the port city of Patras, state broadcaster ERT reported.

Earlier, 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-barrelled shotgun in his right hand.
The same old 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.
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 that the man had shot at the floor inside one of the offices in the court building.

At least three female court employees were slightly wounded by ricocheting shotgun pellets, while media reports said that a fourth female employee was transported to a hospital without physical injuries.
The motive for the shooting was unclear. State broadcaster ERT said that the gunman had reportedly left letters, after the courthouse shooting, complaining at not being able to get a pension.
Witnesses described the man as confused, and police sources told the media he had received psychiatric treatment in recent years.
Alexandros Varveris, head of the National Social Security Fund, known by its Greek acronym EFKA, said the old man had gone to the fourth floor of the social security fund’s offices in the Kerameikos area of central Athens and opened fire after calling out to an employee to duck.
His shot hit another employee, who was wounded in the leg, Varveris said, adding that the gunman had been wearing a trench coat under which he had hidden the shotgun.
“He went in, went up to the fourth floor, raised his shotgun, told an employee to duck and hit another one,” Varveris told ERT radio.
He said the gunman did not appear to specifically target the employee he hit.
The wounded employee was transported to a hospital, after police applied a tourniquet to his leg at the scene.
All the injured are out of danger, emergency services said later.
Athens court staff announced a 24-hour strike on Wednesday in protest at the incident, which they blamed on poor security at court buildings.
Gun violence is relatively rare in Greece, where firearm ownership is allowed but tightly regulated.
Additional reporting by Agence France-Presse, dpa


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The man is said to have hidden a gun under his coat before firing shots at a social security office and a courthouse


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