Greece train crash

At least 36 people died and dozens more were injured in the head-on collision between two trains near the city of Larissa on Tuesday night. The front carriages ...

The station master, who is in charge of signalling, has denied both charges and blamed the accident on a technical fault. You can also get in touch in the following ways: Five hours later, we are finding bodies," an exhausted rescuer emerging from the wreckage told AFP news agency. "We were turning over in the carriage until we fell on our sides and until the commotion stopped. Please include your name, age and location with any submission. Angelos Tsiamouras told Greek broadcaster ERT the crash had felt like an earthquake, and he smashed the train window using his suitcase. "I've never seen anything like this in my entire life. However, officials say some may have left the scene without being accounted for. "For 10, 15 seconds it was chaos. As we were turning over we were being burned. He said the first four carriages of the passenger train were derailed, and the first two carriages caught fire and were "almost completely destroyed". Fire was right and left," Mr Minenis was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

A passenger train and a freight train were traveling down the same track when they crashed head-on, sending the first two passenger carriages flying into ...

following the aftermath of [an Ohio train derailment that sent hazardous materials spilling into the surrounding residential area.](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/16/1157333630/east-palestine-ohio-train-derailment) [An initial report from the National Transportation Safety Board](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/23/1158972561/east-palestine-train-derailment-ntsb-preliminary-report-wheel-bearing) stopped short of declaring a conclusive cause of the Ohio derailment, but said a wheel bearing overheated, raising questions of whether the train's safety sensors and procedures were sufficient. [told NPR's Up First that the collision is likely to spark a debate](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/27/1159628799/china-response-to-house-hearing-cpac-starts-amid-controversy-greece-train-crash) around rail safety. The freight train was likely carrying construction material, such as heavy steel plates, [according to Greece's public media agency, ERT.](https://www.ertnews.gr/eidiseis/ellada/live-sygkrousi-trenon-sta-tempi-toulaxiston-36-nekroi-dekades-traymaties-anazitoun-epivates-sta-syntrimmia/) The trains collided, head-on, just before midnight local time, as the passenger train was exiting a tunnel under a highway in the municipality of Tempe. The 59-year-old Hellenic Train employee denied any wrongdoing, saying the accident may have been a technical failure. Getting a full picture of what happened may take some time, authorities say. [According to the national rail operator,](https://www.hellenictrain.gr/en/news/announcement-132023-trains-collision) the passenger train was carrying roughly 350 people at the time of the collision, traveling at high speed from Athens to Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city. A total of 130 were injured. [reports the Associated Press.](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1160282712/fiery-greece-train-collision-kills-more-than-2-dozen-injures-more-than-80) Υποχρέωσή μας τώρα είναι να περιθάλψουμε τους τραυματίες και να είμαστε δίπλα τους. [declared three days of national mourning](https://apa.az/en/europe/greek-pm-mitsotakis-declares-three-days-of-national-mourning-397614) in the country. [The Associated Press reported ](https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1160282712/fiery-greece-train-collision-kills-more-than-2-dozen-injures-more-than-80)that many of those passengers were students returning from Carnival, a three-day festival that precedes the religious season of Lent.

A man is arrested over the collision of a passenger and a freight train in central Greece that has killed at least 36 people and injured dozens.

Officials said the army had been contacted to assist. Before dawn the next day, rescuers searched through twisted, smoking wreckage for survivors. The man has denied any wrongdoing and has attributed the accident to a possible technical failure, the police official said. The 59-year-old station master of a train station in the city of Larissa testified before a prosecutor and was arrested, a government official said. - Authorities say the 59-year-old station master of a train station in the city of Larissa has been arrested A man has been arrested over the collision of a passenger and a freight train in central Greece that has killed at least 43 people and injured dozens, the government and police sources say.

The head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train killed at least 36 people, Greek officials said.

Many of the passengers were students returning to Thessaloniki from Carnival, but officials said but no detailed passenger list was available. Minor clashes broke out as some protesters threw stones at the offices of Greece’s rail operator and riot police and set dumpsters on fire. In Athens, several hundred members of left-wing groups marched late Wednesday to protest the train deaths. He said some passengers escaped through windows but that after a few minutes, crew members were able to open the doors and let people out. “Our carriage didn’t derail, but the ones in front did and were smashed,” he said, visibly shaken. It was the country’s deadliest rail crash on record. Emergency workers used cranes and other heavy machinery to move large pieces of the trains, revealing more bodies and dismembered remains. Authorities arrested the stationmaster at the train’s last stop, in the city of Larissa. The train from Athens to Thessaloniki was carrying 350 passengers, many of them students returning from raucous Carnival celebrations. Police took their names as they arrived, in an effort to track anyone who may be missing. They did not release the man’s name or the reason for the arrest, but the stationmaster is responsible for rail traffic on that stretch of the tracks. He said windows shattered, showering riders with glass.

The Greek transport minister has resigned and a railway station master has been charged with manslaughter after a train crash in Greece that left at least ...

“The glass in the windows shattered and fell on top of us,” he told ERT. The doors were closed but in a few minutes train staff opened them, and we got out.” Police have said a 59-year-old man was charged with manslaughter and grievous bodily harm by way of negligence. “There was panic in the carriage, people were screaming,” an unnamed man told Reuters after being evacuated, with another saying the crash was “like an earthquake”. In the wake of the tragedy, Greece’s transport minister, Kostas Karamanlis, announced he would resign, saying it was his “duty” to do so as a “basic indication of respect for the memory of the people who died so unfairly”. Greece’s transport minister has resigned and a station master arrested after at least 36 people died in a train crash that has been called a “unimaginable tragedy”.

Greek president says 'we are mainly mourning young people' after collision in which 40 have been confirmed dead.

“We need light because we need the cranes because [the debris] is so heavy.” When we realised what had happened, we tried to get out of the wagons, and when we managed that, we saw the chaos.” “It’s unclear if we’ll continue later or with the first light of day,” he told the public broadcaster ERT TV. “I met with relatives of the victims and the missing at the Larissa hospital. The Greek railway system was among an array of public utility companies that were privatised when the debt-stricken country narrowly avoided economic collapse a decade ago. Footage of rescuers rushing to the site of the crash near a gorge about 380km (235 miles) north of Athens in a desperate effort to find survivors amid the mangled wreckage sent a shudder through the nation.

Rescuers continued to search for the missing on Wednesday in the wreckage of two trains that slammed into each other in central Greece.

Immediately afterwards, she visited the two Larissa hospitals where the crash victims, many of the injured and their relatives were taken. Survivors later spoke of being ejected from carriage windows; others described how they had to struggle through plumes of acrid smoke to free themselves after the train buckled. A public prosecutor, Stamatis Daskopolopoulos, tasked with overseeing the inquiry, said witnesses had begun giving testimony. “We are mainly mourning young people.” The two trains then travelled for several kilometres along the same track before colliding at high speed. The two trains — a passenger train carrying 342 people and travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki, and a cargo train from Thessaloniki to Larissa — collided head-on outside the city of Larissa in central Greece late on Tuesday.

At least 43 people died in the head-on collision between a passenger service and freight train.

Stergios Minenis, a 28-year-old passenger who jumped to safety from the wreckage, told Reuters news agency: "The fire was immediate. "Justice will do its job," he said in a televised address. The accident happened just before midnight on Tuesday.

The Greek transport minister has submitted his resignation after a head-on train collision killed at least 38 people.

In Athens, about 1000 people protested outside the offices of Hellenic Train, another branch of the rail network, where some hurled stones at windows. Based on that, the death toll was likely to rise, he said. Passengers described a “nightmarish” crash which engulfed their train in flames just before midnight near the central town of Larissa, some 320km north of Athens. “Now we are waiting to do a DNA test. Many of the victims were thought to be university students returning home late on Tuesday after a long holiday weekend. It had departed from the Greek capital and was headed to the northern city of Thessaloniki.

At least 36 people have died and dozens more have been injured after a passenger train collided with a cargo train at high speed in central Greece.

The cargo train had been travelling from Thessaloniki to Larissa. A passenger who escaped from the fifth carriage told Skai TV: "Windows were being smashed and people were screaming ... "We are living through a tragedy. Many were evacuated to Thessaloniki, where one woman ran to embrace her daughter as she disembarked from a bus with other survivors. Derailed carriages, badly damaged with broken windows and thick plumes of smoke, could be seen on the site. The death toll was expected to rise further, a fire brigade official said.

Rescuers delved Wednesday through flattened, burned-out carriages for survivors and bodies after a passenger train and a freight train crashed head-on in ...

“The trains were completely destroyed, both passenger and freight trains.” “People, naturally, were scared — very scared,” he said. The doors were closed but in a few minutes train staff opened them and we got out.” “It will take a long time,” said Sarianidis. Officials said the army had been contacted to assist. The cause of the crash near the Vale of Tempe, about 380 kilometers (235 miles) north of Athens, was not immediately clear, but the stationmaster in the nearby city of Larissa was arrested Wednesday.

Many protesters see the crash which claimed 43 lives as an accident that had been waiting to happen.

A vigil was also held in Athens, outside the offices of Hellenic Train. You can also get in touch in the following ways: Please include your name, age and location with any submission. At a silent vigil in Larissa on Wednesday to commemorate the victims of the incident, one demonstrator said he felt the disaster had only been a matter of time. "Pain has turned into anger for the dozens of dead and wounded colleagues and fellow citizens," the workers' union said in a statement announcing the strike. Three days of national mourning have been declared across the country following the incident, in which a passenger service crashed head on into a freight train, causing the front carriages to burst into flames.

A station master is arrested and the country's transport minister has resigned after two trains travelling on the same track "for many kilometres" collided ...

Police took their names as they arrived to track anyone who may be missing. Eight rail employees are among the dead, including the two drivers of the freight train and the two drivers of the passenger train. Kostas Karamanlis said he was stepping down “as a basic indication of respect for the memory of the people who died so unfairly", and was taking responsibility for the state's "long-standing failures" to fix a railway system not fit for the 21st century. "Our thoughts today are with the relatives of the victims," the Greek prime minister said. Earlier, the passenger train had departed from the Greek capital, Athens, and was headed to the northern city of Thessaloniki. It's believed the freight train was travelling at speeds of up to 160 kilometres per hour and the passenger train at 140kph.

Greek communities in Australia issued statements of condolences to Greece after a deadly train crash on Tuesday killed at least 43 people.

He said it appears the crash was “mainly due to a tragic human error.” [The Greek Orthodox Community of South Australia (GOCSA) ](https://www.facebook.com/GreekOrthodoxCommunity/posts/6039753879401297)extended its condolences to the families and victims of the Tempi train disaster and said the Community will lower all Greek flags on its building to half mast “as a sign of respect during the mourning period.” [also issued a statement](https://www.facebook.com/goaaus/posts/197002759678837) on Tuesday and said he was “deeply shocked by the tragic train collision that occurred in our homeland of Greece.” [the Greek Consulates](https://greekherald.com.au/community/welcome-event-held-for-consul-general-of-greece-in-sydney-and-new-greek-trade-commissioner/) have lowered their Greek flags to half mast in memory of the victims of the train crash in Greece. Some were burned beyond recognition, forcing relatives to give DNA samples. [The Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne](https://www.facebook.com/Greekcommunitymelb/posts/235375658860532) also issued a statement on Facebook and said: “our thoughts are with all of you.”

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said it appeared the crash was “mainly due to a tragic human error.”

In Athens, several hundred members of left-wing groups marched late Wednesday to protest the train deaths. Minor clashes broke out as some protesters threw stones at the offices of Greece’s rail operator and riot police and set dumpsters on fire. He said some passengers escaped through windows but that after a few minutes, crew members were able to open the doors and let people out. It was the country’s deadliest rail crash on record. “Our carriage didn’t derail, but the ones in front did and were smashed,” he said, visibly shaken. The government declared three days of national mourning from Wednesday, while flags flew at half-staff outside all European Commission buildings in Brussels. Many of the passengers were students returning to Thessaloniki from Carnival, but officials said but no detailed passenger list was available. Emergency workers used cranes and other heavy machinery to move large pieces of the trains, revealing more bodies and dismembered remains. They did not release the man’s name or the reason for the arrest, but the stationmaster is responsible for rail traffic on that stretch of the tracks. The train from Athens to Thessaloniki was carrying 350 passengers, many of them students returning from raucous Carnival celebrations. Authorities arrested the stationmaster at the train’s last stop, in the city of Larissa. Police took their names as they arrived, in an effort to track anyone who may be missing.

The fiery crash flattened carriages, killed at least 36 people and injured some 85.

"The trains were completely destroyed, both passenger and freight trains." They said others fought to free themselves after the passenger train buckled, slamming into a field near the gorge, about 380 kilometres north of Athens. Many of the approximately 350 people aboard the passenger train were students returning from Greece's raucous Carnival, officials said. Some people started to climb out through the windows because there was smoke in the carriage. Officials said the army had been contacted to assist. Police took their names as they arrived, in an effort to track anyone who may be missing. Authorities arrested the stationmaster at the train's last stop, in the city of Larissa. He added that the first car caught fire and that he used a bag to break the window of his car, the fourth, and escape. "There were many big pieces of steel," said Vassilis Polyzos, a local resident who said he was one of the first people on the scene. He said dazed and disoriented people were escaping out of the train's rear cars as he arrived. "The glass in the windows shattered and fell on top of us," he told ERT. Karamanlis said he had made "every effort" to improve a railway system that had been "in a state that doesn't befit the 21st century."

Rescuers have resumed a search for victims of Greece's deadliest train crash, combing through the buckled and crushed...

To identify some of the victims, relatives had to give DNA samples at a hospital in Larissa. "And why were there no safety measures? Protests also broke out in Thessaloniki. "It's a difficult operation ... In a televised address on Wednesday night, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis who had earlier visited the site of the crash, said that evidence pointed to a human error. Scores were injured.

More than 50 people were still hospitalized Thursday after the fiery crash, which has sparked a fierce debate over the state of the European nation's public ...

He called it "the least he could do to honor the memory of the victims" as he spoke on live television, adding that he was taking responsibility for "long-standing failures" in the country's transport network. The station master who was on duty in the city of Larissa, about 15 miles southwest of the crash site, when the crash happened "confessed" responsibility for the accident, a federal government spokesman said Thursday. Officials still haven't said exactly how the two trains ended up on a collision course on the same track, but the man in charge of a station in central Greece who was arrested Wednesday in connection with the crash has reportedly accepted "responsibility."

Demonstrators poured into the streets of Greece after a head-on collision between two trains killed dozens and left scores injured, amid anger over ...

Six of the injured being treated are in critical condition due to head wounds and serious burns, state-owned public broadcaster ERT reported Thursday. The accident came soon after a holiday weekend. A station manager of a train station in the city of Larissa was arrested in connection to the collision, as part of the investigation into the incident. The death toll is expected to rise. In a televised address after visiting the crash site, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the collision was “mainly” due “to tragic human error.” The Greek transport minister resigned in the wake of the tragedy, while a rail workers union is going on strike, accusing the government of “disrespect” in the sector.

Rescuers continue to comb through charred and buckled rail carriages searching for more victims of Greece's deadliest train crash, a disaster that has ...

The government promised a thorough investigation. In a televised address on Wednesday night, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who had earlier visited the site of the crash, said that evidence pointed to a human error. Protests also broke out in Thessaloniki. And on Thursday, trains were brought to a halt in a day of strike against what unions said was successive governments' refusal to hear repeated demands to improve safety standards. "Temperatures of 1,200 degrees and more in the carriages cannot allow for anyone to remain alive." - The death toll from the train collision near the Greek city of Larissa has risen to 46

Protests have erupted across Greece as anger grows over Wednesday's train crash that left at least 46 people dead and more than 70 injured.

Several of the dead are believed to have been found in the restaurant area near the front of the passenger train. ... We’re getting cranes to come in and special lifting equipment clear the debris and lift the rail cars. "The trains were completely destroyed, both passenger and freight trains.” They said others fought to free themselves after the passenger train buckled, slamming into a field near a gorge where major highway and rail tunnels are located. Costas Agorastos, the regional governor of the Thessaly area, told Greece's Skai television the two trains crashed head-on at high speed. Rescuers wearing headlamps worked in thick smoke, pulling pieces of mangled metal from the cars to search for trapped people. “The front section of the train was smashed. Police took their names as they arrived, in an effort to track anyone who may be missing. Two rail officials were being questioned by police but had not been detained. “People, naturally, were scared - very scared,” he said. Rescue crews illuminated the scene with floodlights before dawn as they searched frantically through the twisted, smoking wreckage for survivors. That I promise you.”

Admission of 'chronic public sector ills' comes as death toll rises to 46 with 10 still missing.

“After this tragic accident, the country is going through extremely hard times.” Witnesses who rushed to the site of the accident, 235 miles north of Athens, discovered a scene of devastation. The charges were made by the Federation of Railroad employees, which went on TV to call for action. They had boarded the Thessaloniki-bound night train in the Greek capital after a three-day holiday weekend. which the government has not managed to eradicate”. “We are all devastated by this tragic incident,” a government spokesperson, Giannis Oikonomou, told a news conference as the death toll rose to 57.

At least 46 people were killed when a passenger train collided head-on with a cargo train outside the city of Larissa.

- “Windows were being smashed, and people were screaming … As we were turning over, we were being burned; the fire was right and left,” Stergios Minenis, a 28-year-old who jumped to safety, told Reuters. - “The last conversation recorded between the station master and the passenger train driver suggests exactly such an incident of simply ignoring the signalling. - “There was panic … - Police have arrested the Larissa station master, who is responsible for rail traffic on that stretch of the tracks. - Nikos Tsouridis, a retired train driver trainer, said drivers involved in the crash had died “because there were no safety measures”.

Rescuers resumed a search for victims of Greece's deadliest train crash on Thursday, combing through the buckled and crushed remains of carriages that ...

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