The toll from Greece’s worst rail accident rose to 42 on Thursday after a head-on collision blamed on “human error” that has sparked angry protests.
LARISSA, Greece –
“Everything shows that the drama was, sadly, mainly due to a tragic human error,” Mitsotakis said Wednesday after visiting the disaster site. For hours after the crash it was not immediately clear how many people were on board, complicating efforts to determine how many are missing. “It was a student train, full of kids…in their 20s,” Costas Bargiotas, a senior orthopaedic doctor at Larissa General Hospital, told Skai TV. Rescuers at the scene said they had never dealt with a disaster of this magnitude before.
Earlier in Larissa, demonstrators held a silent vigil and brought white roses to form the word Tempe, the name of the valley where the accident took place.
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