Arms cache seized in central Greece

Police in Greece say they've seized an arms cache, including explosives and rocket-propelled grenades, on a farm in the centre of the country.

Policemen raiding the farm at Dion south-west of Salonika found anti-tank rockets, rocket launchers, rifles, grenades and dynamite, as well as heroin and hashish.

Many of the arms were Russian- or Chinese-made.

The farm belongs to a woman of American origin whose Greek husband, under suspicion of involvement in arms and drug smuggling, died in an apparent mafia-style killing last week.

Police are investigating whether the arms were connected to killings and robberies around Greece, or to a local protection racket.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service