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Wide of riot police at damaged bus shelter\u003cbr/\u003eRiots over harsh new austerity measures left three bank workers dead and engulfed the streets of Athens on Wednesday, as angry protesters tried to storm parliament, hurled Molotov cocktails at police and torched buildings. \u003cbr/\u003ePolice responded with barrages of tear gas.\u003cbr/\u003eTens of thousands of people took to the streets in a nationwide strike to protest new taxes and government spending cuts demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and other European nations before heavily indebted Greece gets a euro 110 billion (b) (141 billion (b) US dollars) loan package to keep it from defaulting.\u003cbr/\u003eThe three bank workers - a man and two women - died after demonstrators set their bank on fire along the main demonstration route in central Athens. \u003cbr/\u003eAs their colleagues sobbed in the street, five other bank workers were rescued from the balcony of the burning building.\u003cbr/\u003ePrime Minister George Papandreou strongly condemned the incident in Parliament, calling it \"murder\" during a session to discuss the spending cuts he announced Sunday - measures even the IMF has called draconian. \u003cbr/\u003eLawmakers held a minute of silence for the dead, the first deaths during a protest in Greece since 1991.\u003cbr/\u003eA senior fire department official said demonstrators prevented firefighters from reaching the burning building, costing them vital time.\u003cbr/\u003eHe asked not to be identified pending an official announcement.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the Greek bailout critical for all of Europe.\u003cbr/\u003eGreece faces a May 19 due date on debt it says it can't repay without the help.\u003cbr/\u003eIn Brussels, European Union officials desperately tried to calm market fears that Greece's debt crisis was spreading to the rest of Europe, insisting it was a \"unique case\" combining profligacy and tampered accounts. \u003cbr/\u003eEuropean Union President Herman Van Rompuy insisted the growing debt problems in Spain and Portugal had nothing to do with the situation in Greece.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Moody's Investor Services, a major ratings agency, put Portugal's bond rating on review for possible downgrade Wednesday. \u003cbr/\u003eSpanish and Portuguese bonds and stocks slumped further on the news, reflecting fears that they may also have trouble repaying their debt and that the eurozone would have to extend even larger bailouts to them.\u003cbr/\u003eOn the streets of Athens, demonstrators chanted \"Thieves, thieves!\" as they attempted to break through a riot police cordon guarding Parliament and chased ceremonial guards away from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in front of the building.\u003cbr/\u003eTear gas drifted across the city centre as rioters hurled paving stones and fire bombs at police. \u003cbr/\u003eFirefighters extinguished blazes at least two buildings, the bank and a branch of the Finance Ministry, while protesters set up burning barricades and torched cars and a fire engine.\u003cbr/\u003ePolice said 12 people were injured in the riots.\u003cbr/\u003eThe marches came amid a 24-hour nationwide general strike that grounded all flights to and from Greece, shut down ports, schools and government services, and left hospitals working with emergency medical staff. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Acropolis and all other ancient sites were closed and journalists also walked off the job, suspending television and radio news broadcasts.\u003cbr/\u003eBut media later broke the strike to report on the deaths and the protests.\u003cbr/\u003eViolence also broke out in the northern city of Thessaloniki, where another 20,000 people marched through the city centre and some youths smashed store windows.\u003cbr/\u003eUnion reaction over austerity measures until now had been relatively muted by Greece's volatile standards, despite several previous strikes. \u003cbr/\u003eBut anger mounted after Papandreou announced cuts in salaries and pensions for civil servants and another round of consumer tax increases.\u003cbr/\u003ePapandreou said he has no choice but to implement the measures if Greece was to avoid bankruptcy.\u003cbr/\u003eUnder the bailout package, Greece will receive loans over three years from the IMF and the other 15 countries who share the euro currency. 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