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Mar

2023

Thousands protest in Athens after Greece’s deadly train crash

CLASHES erupted briefly between police and a group of demonstrators in central Athens on the fringes of a protest by thousands of students and railway workers over Greece's deadliest train crash in living memory. A small group of protesters hurled petrol bombs at police, who responded with tear gas and stun grenades. The protesters then disperse to nearby streets. At least 57 people were killed and dozens were injured on Tuesday when a passenger train with more than 350 people on board collided with a freight train on the same track in central Greece. After protests over the past three…

Mar

2023

By The African Mirror

Anger, sorrow in Greece as train crash death toll rises

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LEFTERIS PAPADIMAS and ALEXANDROS AVRAMIDIS ANGER and sorrow grew in Greece over a devastating train crash that killed dozens of passengers along with crew members near the central city of Larissa in the country's worst rail disaster. Carriages were thrown off the tracks, crushed and engulfed in flames when a high-speed passenger train with more than 350 people on board collided head-on with a freight train on Tuesday. They were on the same track. As more bodies were recovered on Thursday, the number of dead rose to 57, among them university students returning home after a long holiday weekend. Scores were injured.…

Mar

2023

By The African Mirror

Greece train crash kills at least 36, injures scores

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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.…

Apr

2021

By The African Mirror

Taiwan releases train crash suspect on bond, prosecutors lodge appeal

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ANN WANG A Taiwan court yesterday released on bond the manager of a construction site whose truck authorities believe caused a train accident that killed at least 51 people, as family members mourned the dead at the crash site. The crash on Friday was Taiwan's worst rail accident in seven decades, when an express train hit the truck that had slid down a bank beside the track from the building site. The site's manager is suspected of having failed to properly engage the truck's brake. The train, with almost 500 people aboard, was travelling from Taipei, the capital, to Taitung…