57 killed and dozen injured in Greece train collision
At least 57 people killed when a passenger train in Greece collided head-on with a freight train late on Tuesday. Derailing carriages that then burst into flames in the country's deadliest rail crash in living memory. This is by far the most horrible incident in Greece.
A passenger service carrying 350 people collided with a freight train just before midnight on Tuesday after they ended up on the same track. Causing the front carriages to burst into flames. The railway workers' strike began at 06:00 local time (04:00 GMT). Hitting national rail services and the subway in Athens. Many in Greece see the crash as an accident that had been waiting to happen. The union blamed successive governments' "disrespect" towards Greek railways for leading to this "tragic result".
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