{"id":366673,"date":"2026-07-21T02:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/man-stabs-tourists-near-the-acropolis-in-athens-greece"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T07:20:10","slug":"man-stabs-tourists-near-the-acropolis-in-athens-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/man-stabs-tourists-near-the-acropolis-in-athens-greece","title":{"rendered":"Man stabs vacationers close to the Acropolis in Athens, Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB \">ATHENS, Greece &#8212; <\/span>A man stabbed and injured two tourists Tuesday morning near the ancient Acropolis in Athens, Greece\u2019s top tourist attraction, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The assailant attacked a man and a woman, both Greek Americans, with a knife near the entrance of the Acropolis Museum, which lies at the foot of the Acropolis hill. The woman suffered light injuries to the leg, while the man was more seriously hurt with wounds to the arm, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The attacker was detained, while the two victims were transported to hospital by ambulance, authorities said. The identity of the attacker was not immediately clear, but police said he appeared to have been suffering from psychological problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Such attacks are rare in Greece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Acropolis hill in Athens hosts the nearly 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple as well as other monuments, and attracts millions of tourists. Last year, about 4.6 million people visited the site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/International\/wireStory\/man-stabs-tourists-acropolis-athens-greece-134939322\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS, Greece &#8212; A man stabbed and injured two tourists Tuesday morning near the ancient Acropolis in Athens, Greece\u2019s top tourist attraction, police said. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":343121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40918,40912,40911,40916,2278,40915,40914,40913,13044,40917,40910],"class_list":["post-366673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-acropolis","tag-acropolis-hill","tag-acropolis-museum","tag-acropolis-of-athens","tag-athens","tag-classical-athens","tag-culture-of-ancient-greece","tag-culture-of-greece","tag-greece","tag-makrygianni-athens","tag-parthenon-temple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366673"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366675,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366673\/revisions\/366675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}