Emergency crews using cranes and heavy machinery are searching the wreckage of trains involved in a deadly collision that sent Greece into national mourning and has prompted strikes and protests over rail safety
Emergency crews cut through the mangled remains of a passenger train, progressing “centimeter by centimeter” in their search for the dead from a head-on collision in northern Greece that killed at least 46 people.
now, a reminder of how the head on crash came about late on tuesday. it involved a passenger service from athens to thessaloniki and a freight service coming in the opposite direction on the same track, in the tempi district north of the city of larissa. this is the devastation the collision caused, with the front carriages of the passenger train largely destroyed as they came off the tracks and overturned, some catching fire. the force of the explosions were captured by a security camera. two fireballs ripping through the carriages. andreas alikaniotis was on the train, but managed to escape by breaking the window glass. he described the moment of impact. ifelt, some, like, glass, and when i hearthe bang, i was already in the air with my friend. i was bumping into the bulkheads, so it was just terrifying. it was just like a horror movie. this has been the scene today