Three arrested after Athens hit-and-run leaves teen critically injured 

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Police person arrested three individuals successful transportation with a hit-and-run mishap successful Athens connected Saturday afternoon, successful which a 16-year-old miss was earnestly injured. She remains hospitalized, with doctors describing her information arsenic critical.

The incidental occurred connected Liosion Street, where the teenager was struck by a motorbike while crossing the road. Two radical were riding the motorcycle astatine the time. Both fell disconnected during the collision but rapidly remounted the motorcycle and fled the scene, leaving the injured miss down without offering assistance.

According to police, the proprietor of the motorbike, a 20-year-old woman, was among those arrested. Authorities said she appeared astatine a constabulary station successful the Kypseli territory astir two hours aft the incident, claiming her motorcycle had been stolen. Investigators determined the assertion to beryllium false.

The woman besides identified a adjacent who accompanied her to the station arsenic the operator of the motorbike. That idiosyncratic was subsequently taken into custody.

A third apprehension was made precocious Saturday nighttime when a 22-year-old antheral presented himself to police, stating that helium had been the rider connected the motorcycle progressive successful the crash. He told officers helium did not cognize the driver’s afloat identity, providing lone a archetypal name.

Authorities proceed to analyse the circumstances surrounding the incident.