At least 36 people were killed and dozens more injured after a passenger train crashed into an oncoming freight train in Greece late Tuesday.
At least 36 people were killed and dozens more injured after a passenger train crashed into an oncoming freight train in Greece late Tuesday, fire officials said. Roughly 350 passengers were estimated to have been on board at the time of the collision, which occurred near northern Thessaly and the city of Larissa, according to the.
The impact was described as “very strong” by regional governor Konstantinos Agorastos, who told SKAI TV that the passenger trains first four carriages had derailed, and that the first two were “almost completely” destroyed. “This is a terrible night,” he added. People in the train’s front cars were flung out in the impact and found over 130 feet away, first responders said, while others remained trapped inside the burning wreckage.
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