Hundreds of people rushed to donate blood after at least 36 people died when a freight and passenger train collided in Greece.
The passenger train was travelling from Athens to Thessaloniki
‘In those three and a half years we made every effort to improve this reality. Unfortunately, those efforts were not adequate to avert such a tragedy.’ Yiannis Ditsas, head of the Greek railway workers union, told Skai television that the trains raced toward one another for 12 minutes without realizing it as the automatic signalling at the spot of the crash hadn’t been working.supports HTML5 videoPolice said this afternoon that the station manager in Larissa, about 20 miles from the crash site, has been arrested.
The stationmaster has been charged with causing mass deaths through negligence and causing grievous bodily harm through negligence, a police official said.
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