An alarm was raised at the port of Piraeus on Monday afternoon (9 November) following a bomb threat against the Blue Star 1 ferry.

Passengers disembarked from the vessel while members of the Hellenic Coast Guard carried out a search with the assistance of a specially trained sniffer dog.

The ferry had been due to depart in the afternoon for Syros, Patmos, Leros, Kos and Rhodes, carrying 875 passengers, 98 cars, two trucks, 110 commercial vehicles, one minibus and 83 crew members.