Local authorities have reported that a passenger train and a freight train collided on Tuesday night (local time) close to the city of Larissa in Greece, resulting in 36 fatalities and 66 individuals being admitted to hospitals for treatment.
Greek police and emergency crews search wreckage Wednesday after the train derailment. Authorities say the first two passenger carriages nearly disintegrated after catching fire and reaching a temperature of nearly 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit.Sakis Mitrolidis/AFP via Getty Images
Greek police and emergency crews search wreckage Wednesday after the train derailment. Authorities say the first two passenger carriages nearly disintegrated after catching fire and reaching a temperature of nearly 2,300 degrees Fahrenheit.Prime Minister Kriakos Mitsotakis announced the formation of a cross-party committee of experts that would investigate the causes of the collision.
Mitsotakis said the committee would explore"perennial delays" in critical railway projects, but that"everything shows the drama is due, unfortunately, largely to tragic human error." Υποχρέωσή μας τώρα είναι να περιθάλψουμε τους τραυματίες και να είμαστε δίπλα τους. Από εκεί και πέρα, ένα πράγμα μπορώ να εγγυηθώ: θα μάθουμε τα αίτια αυτής της τραγωδίας και θα κάνουμε ό,τι περνάει από το χέρι μας για να μην ξανασυμβεί ποτέ κάτι τέτοιο.from the city of Larissa was arrested and charged with manslaughter by negligence. The 59-year-old Hellenic Train employee originally denied any wrongdoing.
But ERT news, citing unnamed police sources, reported that the stationmaster later admitted he made an error directing the trains as the result ofEarlier in the day, a 25,000-volt power cable exploded and fell onto a train at the Paleofarsolas station, causing a three-hour delay on the Athens-Thessaloniki route,
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