38 Dead, Dozens hospitalized In Greece Train Crash On Tuesday || Macqathylive

 

At least 38 people have been confirmed dead after a passenger train went head on collision with a freight train in Central Greece on Tuesday. The two trains which have traveled several kilometers before the crash have left the country to a mourning state. 

According to reports by the state broadcaster, the train was carrying 350 people before the collision happened in Tempi, near the city of Larissa leaving fifty seven(57) people in the hospital with six(6) in the intensive care unit (ICU) the Greek Fire Service team confirmed. 

Meanwhile the rescue team personals have said that they are expecting to have extra casualties following the devastating level of the crash. They said the dead people have been transported by means of ambulance to the Larissa General Hospital morgue for DNA samples for identification, Greek police spokeswoman Constantia Dimoglidou narrated.  

One of the surviving passengers said it was scary when they were hit with the unfortunate incident. He said after the crash they had very little to do because both end to end of the train started burning leaving very little to see. The transport Minister after his visit to the scenes has presented his resignation letter to show honorary to the dead. 

He narrated they have been working tirelessly to put things in place because the railway transport system they took over from the previous administration was nothing to match with the 21st Century standards. However they have been working hard to bring the railway system to a modern type but it has come with a lot of struggle.

Greece has a week record of railway passenger safety compared with the other countries in Europe, tallying the highest railway fatality rate to per million train kilometers from 2018 to 2020 among 28 nations on the continent, according to a 2022 report from the European Union Agency for Railways.

However Greek police has told CNN that they had arrested the station manager of a train station in Larissa on Wednesday as part of a preliminary investigation. A 59-year-old man is being held in the city and is expected to appear before the prosecutor, Greek police spokeswoman Constantia Dimoglidou said Wednesday. 

Condolences poured in from across the world, as Greek government officials has declared a three-day mourning period with flag at half-staff starting Wednesday.