29 dead, 85 injured as two trains collide head-on in Greece

Trains collide head-on in Greece: At least 32 people were killed and 85 injured after two trains collided head-on in Greece late on Tuesday. The circumstances of the crash are still unclear.

The governor of the Thessaly region said a passenger train travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki collided with a cargo train outside the city of Larissa in central Greece. “The collision was very strong,” said governor Konstantinos Agorastos.  He further said the first four carriages of the passenger train had derailed. The first two carriages caught fire after the collision and were “almost completely destroyed,” said Agorastos.

250 passengers evacuated

About 250 passengers were evacuated safely to Thessaloniki on buses. One passenger told state broadcaster ERT he managed to escape after breaking the train window with his suitcase.

“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.

Debris strewn across the road

Footage showed footage of derailed carriages, badly damaged with broken windows and thick plumes of smoke, as well as debris strewn across the road. Rescue workers were seen carrying torches in carriages looking for trapped passengers.

“The evacuation of passengers is under way in very difficult conditions given the severity of the collision of the two trains,” fire brigade spokesperson Vassilis Varthakogiannis said in a televised address.

Sources said about 350 people were travelling on the passenger train.

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