Emergency workers are searching late into the night for survivors and bodies after a passenger train and a freight train crashed head-on in central Greece. The collision just before midnight Tuesday killed at least 43 people and injured scores. It was the country's deadliest rail crash on record. Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned Wednesday, saying he felt it was his duty to step down. The cause of the crash near the Vale of Tempe was not immediately clear, but the stationmaster at the train's last stop was arrested. Survivors said the impact threw several passengers into the ceilings and through the windows of train cars.
Emergency workers are searching late into the night for survivors and bodies after a passenger train and a freight train crashed head-on in central Greece
Rescuers searched late into the night Wednesday for survivors amid the mangled, burned-out wrecks of two trains that collided in northern Greece, killing at least 43 people and crumpling carriages into twisted steel knots in the country s deadliest rail crash.