by David Averre at Daily Mail
- A passenger train suffered a head-on collision with a cargo train near Larissa
- At least 38 people are confirmed dead with more than a dozen still missing
Sickening CCTV footage has revealed the moment two trains collided in Greece in a horror smash that killed at least 38 people in the country’s worst rail tragedy.
Two carriages were crushed and a third engulfed in fires as hot as 1300 degrees C when a passenger train and a freight train smashed into each other head-on late Tuesday near the central city of Larissa, on a route plagued by years of safety warnings.
The fire department had earlier increased the death toll to 38, adding that 57 people were still hospitalised, six of them in intensive care, while several were missing.
‘Everything shows that the drama was, sadly, mainly due to a tragic human error,’ Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis – who is seeking re-election this year – said in a televised address.
He said it was a ‘terrible train accident without precedent’ in Greece which would be ‘fully’ investigated.
The statement came as a station master responsible for overseeing the stretch of railway near Larissa was arrested and charged with negligible homicide, while the country’s transport minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned…
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