32 people have been killed and at least 85 injured after a passenger train crashed head-on into a freight train at high speed in northern Greece.
A passenger train carrying hundreds of passengers crashed head-on into a freight train at high speed in northern Greece, killing 32 and injuring at least 85.
Stergios Minenis, a 28-year-old passenger who jumped to safety, said: ‘We heard a big bang, 10 nightmarish seconds.Rescue crews operate at the site of the crash ‘We were turning over in the wagon until we fell on our sides…then there was panic, cables fire, the fire was immediate, as we were turning over we were being burned, fire was right and left.’
Rescuers wearing head lamps worked in thick smoke, pulling pieces of mangled metal from the cars to search for trapped people.The passenger train had hundreds on board Several of the dead are believed to have been found in the restaurant area near the front of the passenger train. The possible cause of the collision was not immediately clear. Two rail officials were being questioned by police but had not been detained.
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