ATHENS - Sixteen people were killed and least 85 were injured after two trains collided head-on in Greece late on Tuesday (Feb 28), the fire brigade said, while the circumstances of the crash remained unclear. A passenger train travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki, and a cargo train from Thessaloniki to Larissa, collided outside the city of...
The site of a crash, where two trains collided, is seen near the city of Larissa, Greece, on March 1, 2023.ATHENS - Sixteen people were killed and least 85 were injured after two trains collided head-on in Greece late on Tuesday , the fire brigade said, while the circumstances of the crash remained unclear.
A passenger train travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki, and a cargo train from Thessaloniki to Larissa, collided outside the city of Larissa in central Greece, said the governor of the Thessaly region. "The collision was very strong," governor Konstantinos Agorastos told SKAI TV, adding the first four carriages of the passenger train had derailed, while the first two carriages were "almost completely destroyed".Broadcaster SKAI showed footage of derailed carriages, badly damaged with broken windows and thick plumes of smoke, as well as debris strewn across the road. Rescue workers were seen carrying torches in carriages looking for trapped passengers.
"The evacuation of passengers is under way in very difficult conditions given the severity of the collision of the two trains," fire brigade spokesperson Vassilis Varthakogiannis said in a televised address.
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