Greek police intercept eight suspect packages following parcel bombs to IMF, Germany

People make their way past mailboxes outside a closed Hellenic Post branch in Athens, Greece, March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police intercepted eight suspect packages at a postal sorting centre in Athens on Monday, after the dispatch of booby-trapped deliveries to the International Monetary Fund in Paris and the German Finance Ministry.

Authorities were on the lookout after the two packages laced with gunpowder slipped through checks last week. A Greek urban guerrilla group that sent letter bombs to foreign embassies in Athens and European leaders in 2010 is thought to be behind the attacks.