At least 32 people have been killed and 85 injured after two trains collided head-on in Greece in the country’s deadliest rail crash in decades
train travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki
Commuters burned in fires that broke out in a number of the passenger carriages following the impact were among those rushed to hospitals. “We were turning over in the wagon until we fell on our sides…then there was panic, cables [everywhere] fire, the fire was immediate, as we were turning over we were being burned, fire was right and left.”
One passenger told state broadcaster ERT he managed to escape after breaking a train window with his suitcase.
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