They said others fought to free themselves after the passenger train buckled, slamming into a field near a gorge. Many kicked through windows to escape the inferno. Survivors said several passengers were thrown through the windows of the train cars due to the impact. Officials said many of the passengers on board the Athens-to-Thessaloniki train had been university students returning home after celebrating Carnival over the long weekend. Protesters scuffled with police in the city after staging the demonstration. Police fired tear gas at rock-throwing protesters who lit fires in the streets.įlags flew at half-mast in Athens and in Brussels and the Greek government declared three days of national mourning. Trainose was renamed Hellenic Train in 2021. Greece sold railway operator Trainose to Italy's Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane in 2017 as part of its international bailout program, expecting hundreds of millions of euros to be invested in rail infrastructure in the coming years. Students holding candles held a sit-in protest in tribute to the victims on Wednesday night outside the headquarters of the rail operator Hellenic Train in Athens, with many blaming the government for privatizing the company. never having got out, and stationed myself at the extreme end of been inside it. Protesters clash with police outside the Hellenic Train headquarters in Athens on Wednesday night, after the deadly train crash the day before. I was at the York end keep the carriages standing, not thinking it. Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned in the wake of the crash, saying he felt it was his "duty" to step down "as a basic indication of respect for the memory of the people who died so unfairly." Officials said the death toll was expected to rise further, as temperatures in one carriage had risen to 1,300 C after it caught fire. Multiple cars derailed and at least three burst into flames after the collision just before midnight Tuesday near the town of Tempe as the passenger train was emerging from a highway underpass. After sunrise, they turned to heavy machinery that had been brought in to start moving large pieces of the trains. Inside Out (2015) Wagon To The Dump / Sadness Confronts Bing Bong / Train Of Thought Bryan Sigala 13. What appeared to be the third carriage lay atop the clumped remains of the first two. A passenger train carrying hundreds of people, including many university students returning home from holiday, collided at high speed with an oncoming freight train in a fiery wreck in northern Greece Tuesday night, killing at least 38 people and injuring some 85, officials said Wednesday.īefore dawn, rescuers searched through twisted, smoking wreckage for survivors.
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