Rescuers resumed a search for survivors of Greece's deadliest train crash, combing through the buckled and crushed remains of carriages that derailed and then caught fire in a disaster that killed at least 38 people
into a freight train near the city of Larissa late on Tuesday, and temperatures in one carriage had risen to 1,300 Celsius after it caught fire.
"The most difficult moment is this one, where instead of saving lives we have to recover bodies," 40-year old rescuer Konstantinos Imanimidis told Reuters on the site of the crash, 130 miles north of Athens.Many of the passengers had to kick through windows to escape the flames. To identify some of the victims, relatives had to give DNA samples at a hospital in Larissa, where
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