Disbelief turned to despair and anger in Greece on Wednesday after dozens of people were killed in the country's worst rail disaster in living memory.
Nikos Makris and his wife sat on a pavement outside the hospital, waiting for news of his sister in law, who had been visiting family in Athens. Others crowded the ground floor of the hospital facility, many in tears.Makris said his sister in law, Maria, had been in the front compartment, where the fire brigade said temperatures had soared to up to 1300 degrees Celsius on impact.Rescuers operate at the site of a crash, where two trains collided, near the city of Larissa, Greece, March 1, 2023.
"My daughter called and said: "We are burning", a man told state broadcaster ERT. "Her hair caught fire, she was screaming." "There was panic, cables fire, the fire was immediate, as we were turning over we were being burned, fire was right and left,” said 28-year old passenger Stergios Minenis."I managed to get out and went to the front, the train was bent at a 90 degree angle, half of it was hanging over the cliff burning. There were five people injured just where I stood," he said.
The Tempi valley, where the crash occurred, is a notorious spot for accidents. In 2003, 23 school children were killed in a bus crash there. Additional reporting By Alexandros Avramidis, Renee Maltezou, Deborah Kyvrikosaios, Angeliki Koutantou, Karolina Tagaris and Renee Maltezou; writing by Michele Kambas; editing by Christina Fincher
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