LARISSA, Greece - Anger and sorrow grew in Greece on Thursday (March 3) over a devastating train crash that killed dozens of passengers along with crew members near the central city of Larissa in the country’s worst rail disaster. Carriages were thrown off the tracks, crushed and engulfed in flames when a high-speed passenger train with more than 350 people...
People shout slogans during a protest march in Athens, Greece, over a deadly train crash that killed 57 people, on March 2, 2023.LARISSA, Greece - Anger and sorrow grew in Greece on Thursday over a devastating train crash that killed dozens of passengers along with crew members near the central city of Larissa in the country’s worst rail disaster.
Outside the hospital in Larissa, where many of the victims were brought, a woman called Katerina, searching for her missing brother, a passenger on the train, screamed: “Murderers! Murderers! I will leave tomorrow with a coffin!” The union launched a strike in protest that ground train services to a halt across the country on Thursday.Hope of finding survivors amid the charred and buckled rail carriages which rescue workers were scouring through had diminished by Thursday morning.
“He is literally devastated,” Mr Pantsartzidis told reporters. “Since the first moment, he has assumed responsibility proportionate to him,” he said, while hinting that the station master, whose name has not been made public, was not the only one to blame. “We are all devastated by this tragic incident,” government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou told a news conference.
Mr Nikos Tsouridis, a retired train driver trainer, said human error did not fully explain what happened.
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