Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Sunday asked for forgiveness from the families of the 57 victims who died after two trains collided head-on last week.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the site of a crash, where two trains collided, near the city of Larissa, Greece, on Wednesday.
While the government initially blamed human error, Mitsotakis wrote that"we can’t, won’t and shouldn’t hide behind human error."multiple chargesThe wreckage of the trains lie next to the rail lines, after Tuesday's rail crash, the country's deadliest on record, in Tempe, about 235 miles north of Athens, near Larissa city, Greece, on Friday.
Mitsotakis also wrote that the head-on crash could have been avoided had a digital control system been fully operational.Greece has a limited rail network that doesn't reach much of the country. Despite years of modernization projects, much of the key rail control work is still manually operated. Riot police operated against demonstrators during clashes in Athens, Greece, on Sunday. Thousands of protesters take part in rallies around the country for fifth day over the conditions that led the deaths of dozens of people last week in Greece's worst recorded rail accident.
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