Multiple rail cars are derailed, and at least three caught fire some 378km north of Athens
An intercity passenger train travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki collided head-on and at high speed with a cargo train outside the city of Larissa in central Greece late on Tuesday night.
Stergios Minenis , a passenger who jumped to safety from the wreckage, said: “We heard a big bang, [it was] 10 nightmarish seconds. He said the two trains hurtled towards each other on the same track. “They were travelling at great speed and one [driver] didn’t know the other was coming,” the governor said.
“There was panic in the carriage, people were screaming,” a young man who was evacuated to a nearby bridge told SKAI TV. “It was like an earthquake,” Angelos Tsiamouras, another passenger, told ERT. In the early hours of Wednesday, footage from state broadcaster ERT showed rescue workers with headlights searching the wreckage and surrounding fields for survivors.
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