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Greek Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis introduced that he would resign hours after the horrific practice crash.

“When one thing this tragic happens, we will not go on as if nothing had occurred,” Karamanlis mentioned in a press release. 

“It is a undeniable fact that we inherited the Greek railway in a state that isn’t becoming for the twenty first century. 

“In these three and a half years we made each effort to enhance this actuality. Sadly, these efforts weren’t satisfactory to avert such a tragedy,” he added.

Based on native authorities, a station supervisor has been taken into custody in relation to the crash, and a preliminary inquiry is at present ongoing. Nonetheless, the person’s id has not been revealed.

WSJ quoted native officers who mentioned, “the demise is the best for a practice crash in Greece since not less than the mid-Nineteen Sixties.” 

As of Wednesday afternoon, not less than 38 folks have been confirmed useless, and greater than 80 injured.  

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In a devastating accident on Tuesday evening, two trains collided head-on in northern Greece, ensuing within the deaths of not less than 36 folks and leaving dozens extra injured, AP Information reported. The accident occurred close to the city of Tempe in northern Greece. 

Based on stories, a passenger practice carrying 350 passengers and a freight practice collided on the identical monitor. Rescue staff and emergency companies arrived on the scene and located a mangled mess of carriages and freight automobiles. 

Rescuers have been combing via the twisted, smoking wreckage on Wednesday morning. Fireplace officers offered an replace hours in the past that 36 folks had died within the crash, whereas one other 66 had been injured. 

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AP spoke to survivors and one native in regards to the horrific scene:

Survivors mentioned the influence threw a number of passengers via the home windows of practice automobiles. They mentioned others fought to free themselves after the passenger practice buckled, slamming right into a discipline close to the gorge, about 380 kilometers (235 miles) north of Athens.

“There have been many huge items of metal,” mentioned Vassilis Polyzos, an area resident who mentioned he was one of many first folks on the scene. “The trains had been utterly destroyed, each passenger and freight trains.”

He mentioned dazed and disoriented folks had been escaping out of the practice’s rear automobiles as he arrived.

“Folks, naturally, had been scared — very scared,” he mentioned. “They had been wanting round, looking out; they did not know the place they had been.”

What’s clear is each trains had been on the identical monitor. As to why, properly, that is still a thriller, and police are questioning rail officers.