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Greece train crash kills at least 36, injures scores

Greece train crash kills at least 36, injures scores

ALEXANDROS AVRAMIDIS and LEFTERIS PAPADIMAS A Greek passenger train collided head-on with a cargo train late, throwing entire carriages off the tracks and killing at least 36 people, many of them students, in the country's deadliest rail crash in living memory. Officials said the death toll was expected to rise further as temperatures in one carriage rose to 1,300 Celsius after it was engulfed in flames. Passengers described a "nightmarish" crash which shattered their train just before midnight near the central town of Larissa. It was headed to the northern city of Thessaloniki, from the capital Athens, after a long holiday weekend.…
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