In the wake of a head-on collision in Larissa, up to 60 persons are still unaccounted for
A passenger train with more than 300 people on board collided with a freight train in Greece. A station manager got capture into custody through the police. The prime minister placed the blame on “Tragic human error”, and transport minister resigned.
In what appeared to be the nation’s deadliest rail accident, a high-speed, head on collision between a freight train. And a passenger train left with 38 people dead and dozens more injured as rescue workers in Greece desperately looked for survivors.
Greek transport minister Kostas A. Karamanlis made his resignation known shortly after the accident, stating “when something so tragic happens. It’s impossible to continue as if nothing had happened”. Moreover, he added, “We made every attempt to enhance this reality throughout those fifteen months. Sadly, such efforts fell short of averting such a catastrophe.”
The crash occurred on Tuesday as a passenger train was making its way from Athens to northern city of Thessaloniki. The reason for this tragedy is still unknown.
Without providing a cause, the Greek police detained the station manager in Larissa on Wednesday afternoon. However, roughly 20 miles south of the disaster got to see it. Greek news media said that the station manager ordered the train to go onto the same as the passenger train. But the authorities would neither confirm nor refuse those claims.
According to the fire department, 342 passengers, 10 railroad employees on the passenger train and 2people on the freight train. As per Greece’s health minister Thanos Plevris, many of the passengers were college students, young people. And Greek news media many young passengers were coming home from Athens’ carnival festivities.
Survivors reported horrifying images in which passengers got crushed under crumpled cars or sent crashing through train car windows.
People were shouting and breaking windows, and a young man who survived the collision informed a television team.
