A passenger train slammed into a freight carrier just before midnight Tuesday, killing more than 50 people.
By VASSILIS KOMMATAS, GIANNIS PAPANIKOS and DEREK GATOPOULOS, The Associated Press
The force of the head-on collision and a resulting fire has complicated the task of determining the death toll. Officials are matching parts of dismembered and burned bodies with tissue samples to establish the number. “My son is not on any official list so far and I have no information. I am pleading with anyone who may have seen him, in rail car 5, seat 22, to contact me if they may have seen him,” Ruci, who struggled to stop her voice from cracking, told reporters.
Flags at the ancient Acropolis, parliament and other public buildings in Athens remained at half-staff on the third day of national mourning, while national rail services were halted by a strike for a second day.
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