A passenger train with 342 passengers and cargo train collided at high speeds. A local station master has been arrested.
The local station master, in charge of signaling, has been arrested, a police official said, as investigators tried to find out why the two trains had been on the same track.
The crash occurred as the passenger train that was headed to the northern Greece city of Thessaloniki from the capital Athens emerged from a tunnel near the town of Larissa. Sixty-six of those injured were hospitalized, six of whom in intensive care, a fire brigade official said. The head of the emergency unit in Larissa hospital, Apostolos Komnos, said most of the dead were young people, in their 20s.
Fire brigade spokesperson Vassilis Varthakogiannis said the evacuation of passengers took place in “difficult conditions given the severity of the collision of the two trains.”The cargo train had been traveling from Thessaloniki to Larissa. Local media said the train left Athens around 7.30 pm. The fire brigade said it was informed of the accident shortly before midnight.Article content
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