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Demonstrators poured into the streets of Greece after a head-on collision between two trains killed dozens and left scores injured, amid anger over ...

Six of the injured being treated are in critical condition due to head wounds and serious burns, state-owned public broadcaster ERT reported Thursday. The accident came soon after a holiday weekend. A station manager of a train station in the city of Larissa was arrested in connection to the collision, as part of the investigation into the incident. The death toll is expected to rise. In a televised address after visiting the crash site, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the collision was “mainly” due “to tragic human error.” The Greek transport minister resigned in the wake of the tragedy, while a rail workers union is going on strike, accusing the government of “disrespect” in the sector.

Greek Railroad Workers Union president Yannis Nitsas said that eight rail workers were among the dead, including the two drivers of the freight train as well as ...

A station manager arrested after the collision was charged on Wednesday with multiple counts of manslaughter and causing serious physical harm through negligence. Money from shares contributes directly to keep our paper thriving. This is the last article you can read this month

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — The death toll from the head-on collision of a passenger train and a freight train in Greece has risen to 57.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent a message in Greek, writing, “The people of Ukraine share the pain of the families of the victims. Pope Francis and European leaders sent messages of sympathy in the wake of the crash. “The lights went out. They bought 50 tickets to death.” The Larissa station manager arrested after the collision was charged Wednesday with multiple counts of manslaughter and causing serious physical harm through negligence, as a judicial inquiry tries to establish why the two trains were traveling in opposite directions on the same track. Rail workers went on strike to protest years of underfunding that they say has left the country’s train system in a dangerous state. We wish a speedy recovery to all the injured.” Railway workers’ associations, meanwhile, called strikes, halting national rail services and the subway in Athens. “Nobody has called me back.” That can’t change, I know it,” he said. It was the country's Six of them were in intensive care.

Anger mounted in Greece on Thursday over a fatal train collision that killed at least 57 people, with protests and a national strike as authorities admitted ...

"My client has assumed his share of responsibility. His replacement on Thursday offered "apologies" to families of the victims and vowed a "complete evaluation of the political system and the state". The company said on Wednesday it was working with the authorities and had offered "financial support" to the passengers. The passenger train ran for several kilometres on the same track as an incoming freight train, reportedly after the station master in Larissa failed to reroute one of the trains. "We are angry at the company, at the government and past governments that did nothing to improve conditions in the Greek railway," said pensioner Stavros Nantis at the protest. The crowd held a moment of silence to honour victims who died in the wreckage near Larissa in central Greece, where a freight train and passenger train, carrying more than 350 people, collided head on late on Tuesday.

As emergency workers continued to pick through the charred carriages, Greeks were turning their focus to a rail system that had long been in worrisome ...

countries in the percentage of its GDP spent on infrastructure, “undermining” its quality. As the train kept moving, a third detector “The light signals don’t work nor does the traffic control system,” he said. Greece in 2017 sold its rail company to Italy’s state railways Ferrovie dello Stato for 45 million euros ($48 million). But the problems intensified during that period, in tandem with harsh austerity measures. The Kathimerini newspaper, a major Greek daily, Greece was the only European Union country, The crash will probably take on a political dimension with Greece — led by a center-right government — poised to hold national elections in the coming months. Many on board were young people who had been celebrating the raucous carnival holiday, held at last after three years of pandemic interruptions. In Athens, protesters threw stones at the rail company offices before being dispersed by riot police. The passenger train, with about 350 people on board, had been making the trip from Athens to Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, when it collided with the freight train. One of the left-wing Greek newspapers on Thursday blared the headline: “It is not a mistake, it is a crime.”

Eurobank , one of Greece's four largest lenders, has agreed to sell its Serbian business to AIK Banka Beograd, it said on Thursday.

[The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.](https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en/about-us/trust-principles.html) [(EURBr.AT)](https://www.reuters.com/companies/EURBr.AT), one of Greece's four largest lenders, has agreed to sell its Serbian business to AIK Banka Beograd, it said on Thursday. The transaction values the Serbian subsidiary, Eurobank Direktna, at 280 million euros as part of its strategy to focus on core markets in Greece, Bulgaria and Cyprus, Eurobank said in a bourse filing.