Anger over deadly train crash in Greece prompted rail workers to go on strike to protest years of underfunding, which they say left the country’s train system in a dangerous state
Workers supported by a crane try to remove debris from the rail lines after a collision in Tempe, about 376 kilometres north of Athens, near Larissa city, Greece, March 2, 2023.
The passenger train and a freight train slammed into each other late on Tuesday, crumpling carriages into twisted steel knots and forcing people to smash windows to escape. The cause of the crash is still not clear. The Larissa station manager arrested after the collision was charged on Wednesday with multiple counts of manslaughter and causing serious physical harm through negligence.
They are protesting working conditions and what they described as a dangerous failure to modernise the Greek rail system due to a lack of public investment during the deep financial crisis, which spanned most of the previous decade and brought Greece to the brink of bankruptcy.
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