An intercity passenger train travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki collided at high speed with a cargo train outside the city of Larissa in central Greece, said the governor of the Thessaly region.
“We were turning over in the wagon until we fell on our sides…then there was panic, cables fire, the fire was immediate, as we were turning over we were being burned, fire was right and left.” “There was panic in the carriage, people were screaming,” a young man who was evacuated to a nearby bridge told SKAI TV.Broadcaster SKAI showed footage of derailed carriages, badly damaged with broken windows and thick plumes of smoke, as well as debris strewn across the road. Rescue workers were seen carrying torches in carriages looking for trapped passengers.
“We are living through a tragedy. We are pulling out people alive, injured…there are dead. We are going to be here all night, until we finish, until we find the last person,” a volunteer rescue worker told ERT state broadcaster.
How could this have happened. How can two trains two heading towards each other be on the same track. Human error
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