'Like a warzone': Greek train tragedy survivors recount chaos scenes

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The search for bodies continued in what was shaping up to be Greece’s worst train disaster. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Still, “it felt like an earthquake,” he told AFP.

But train unionists have long claimed that insufficient funding was directed to safety systems in a network that is already one of the least efficient in Europe. Firefighters and rescue crews work to extricate passengers from trains after a collision near Larissa city, Greece, on March 1. PHOTO: EPA-EFE

 

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