Passenger and freight trains collided near the Greek city of Larisa. The death toll has risen to 29. Writes regarding it TASSreferring to the news channel ERT NEWS and the words of the official representative of the fire service Vassilis Vatrakoyannis.
“To date, 29 dead and 85 injured have been found. <…> At the scene of the accident, 150 firefighters, 40 ambulances and 32 police officers in 15 patrol cars are involved. Vehicles with a crane also help in the dismantling of mangled wagons,” Vatrakoyannis said.
The incident took place on the night of Wednesday, March 1st. Both locomotives for some unknown reason were on the same track. The first wagons were completely destroyed. “In the area of Evangelismos, there was a head-on collision between two trains – a freight train and an IC 62 train en route from Athens to Thessaloniki. About 350 passengers were on board at the time of the collision,” Hellenic Train said.
Updated at 7:06:
The number of victims of the tragedy has increased to 32, the official representative of the fire service of Greece, Vassilis Vartakoyannis, said live on ERT television.