Greece Passenger Train Crash: Numerous Dead and Injured

Two trains collided late on Tuesday in northern Greece, resulting in at least 36 deaths and several injuries. While one train moved cargo, the other carried passengers. Young adults in their 20s made up a large portion of the deceased. Approximately 380 kilometers north of Athens, close to the Vale of Tempe, was where the accident occurred. The goal of the investigation is to identify what caused the crash. Greek police said they arrested the stationmaster in the nearby city of Larissa.The trains struck one other at a speed of around 140 kilometers per hour, according to state television ERT. According to survivors, the collision threw people through windows. Forty meters from the crash scene, some bodies were discovered. In the rear of the passenger train sat Stefanos Gogakos. It felt, he said, like an explosion. There was a fire that he could see in front of the train. He said he was covered with glass.

He said, “My head hit the roof.” “There was smoke in the carriage, so some people started to climb out the windows.” Images from Wednesday showed multiple train cars that had fallen off the tracks. There were railroad cars stacked on top of one another. There were several emergency vehicles parked nearby. To separate the train cars from one another, a crane was also present. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the prime minister of Greece, went to the crash site. “I can assure you that we will investigate the reasons behind this tragedy and will take all necessary steps to ensure that something similar never occurs again,” he declared.

Three days of national mourning were declared by the government, and flags outside the European Commission in Brussels were flown at half-staff. Kostas Karamanlis, the minister of transportation for Greece, resigned on Wednesday. He declared that he was assuming accountability for the nation’s “long-standing failures” to modernize the railway system, which he claimed was out of date. Moving the train cars and removing the bodies will need a significant amount of time, as rescue worker Lazaros Sarianidis informed ERT. Residing close to the crash scene is Vassilis Polyzos. He was one of the first people to arrive at the scene. He declared, “The trains were completely destroyed.” “People were afraid, really afraid.”