LARISSA: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday that a"tragic human error" was probably responsible for a train collision that left at least 38 dead in the country's worst rail tragedy.when a passenger train and a freight train collidedThe fire department added that 57 people were still hospitalised, six of them in intensive care, while several were missing.
"I've never seen anything like this in my entire life," said one rescue worker, emerging from the wreckage."It's tragic. Five hours later, we are finding bodies."In some cases, passengers are being identified from body parts, volunteer fireman Vassilis Iliopoulos told Skai TV, warning that the death toll would rise.
"It was the train of terror," Pavlos Aslanidis, whose son is missing along with a friend, told reporters."When something so tragic happens, we cannot continue as if nothing had happened," Kostas Karamanlis said in a public statement. Government spokesman Yiannis Economou said the two trains had been running on the same track for"several kilometres".
A safety supervisor had resigned last year, warning that infrastructure upgrades pending since 2016 were incomplete and that train speeds of up to 200kmh were unsafe. Health Minister Thanos Plevris said most passengers were 'young people' after a long holiday weekend. The train was mostly carrying students returning to Thessaloniki after a long holiday weekend."Fortunately we were in the penultimate car and we got out alive. There was a fire in the first cars and complete panic.
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