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(ANSA-AFP) - ATHENS, MAR 1 - At least 36 people were killed
and another 85 injured after a collision between two trains
caused a derailment near the Greek city of Larissa late Tuesday
night, authorities said. A fire services spokesman confirmed
that multiple carriages skipped the tracks just before midnight
after the trains -- one for freight and the other carrying 350
passengers -- collided about halfway along the route between
Athens and Thessaloniki. "Thirty-two people have been found
dead," spokesman Vassilis Vathrakogiannis told reporters, adding
that efforts to rescue people still trapped were ongoing. "Of
the 85 people injured, 53 people remain in hospital." An
explanation for why the two trains collided has not yet been
furnished. Greek media are calling the crash the "worst train
accident that Greece has ever known". The passenger train had
been travelling from the capital Athens to second city
Thessaloniki in the north, while the freight train was heading
in the opposite direction. (ANSA-AFP).
