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. | Reuters
Outside the hospital in Larissa, where many of the victims were brought, a woman called Katerina, searching for her missing brother, a passenger on the train, screamed: “Murderers! Murderers! I will leave tomorrow with a coffin!”
“The most difficult moment is this one, where instead of saving lives we have to recover bodies,” 40-year old rescuer Konstantinos Imanimidis told Reuters on the site of the crash, about 140 miles north of Athens.ADVERTISEMENT “He is literally devastated,” Pantsartzidis told reporters. “Since the first moment, he has assumed responsibility proportionate to him,” he said, while hinting that the station master, whose name has not been made public, was not the only one to blame.
“We are all devastated by this tragic incident,” government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou told a news conference. “These delays are rooted in chronic ills of the Greek public , to distortions going back decades,” he said, adding that the government has tried to deal with this but “did not manage to eradicate it.”Nikos Tsouridis, a retired train driver trainer, said human error did not fully explain what happened.
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