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ATHENS, March 1 (Reuters) – A deadly train crash turned a long holiday weekend into a nightmare for hundreds of Greeks on Tuesday night. explosion and it took a few seconds.
At least 36 people were killed when a high-speed passenger train bound for the northern city of Thessaloniki collided with a freight train from the opposite direction, derailed and burst into flames on Tuesday, 220 miles north of Athens. perished has been
According to witnesses, they felt a strong tremor, then explosionand then they felt chaos.
“They were breaking windows and people were shouting,” said a passenger in the fifth carriage. “One of the windows was burnt by the impact of the iron from the other train,” a passenger sheltering under a nearby bridge told Skai TV, his face lit up by a fire burning in the background.
Passengers said there were about 346 people on the train, two-thirds of which were full of young people.
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“My child won’t pick up the phone,” said a woman waiting at the train station in Thessaloniki. Another woman ran to hug the girl who got off the bus with the survivors. “Mom, don’t do it, I’m hurt,” he said.
Many would be returning home after a long holiday weekend celebrating the beginning of Greek Orthodoxy. Thessaloniki has a large student population.
Passenger Stergios Minenis, 28, said, “Panic, cables (everywhere) fire There was a, fire it happened instantly, we were on fire when we spun, fire it was right and left,” he said.
Another passenger in one of the last carriages felt the train shudder and then turn.
“I managed to get out and went to the front, the train was bent at a 90-degree angle, half hanging from the cliff was burning. “Five people were injured where I was standing.”
As dawn broke, rescue teams waded through the smoldering mass of steel, while cranes slowly removed pieces of the train.
They were still discovering victims hours later. A crew of ERT state television sacrifice what was thought to be, was covered in a white sheet and shown being gently placed in the emergency room.
Reporting by Alexandros Avraamides, Renee Maltezou, Deborah Kyvrikosaios, Angeliki Koutantou; Post by Michele Kambas; Edited by Christina Fincher
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2023-03-01 12:46:12
Source – reuters
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