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At least 57 people died when a passenger train slammed into a freight carrier late on Tuesday at Tempe, 235 miles north of Athens.

The government has blamed the crash on human error, and a railway official was charged with manslaughter.

ATHENS - The train tragedy that unfolded in Greece this week, claiming dozens of lives in the country's worst rail disaster, has exposed chronic failures by successive administrations, insiders say.

ATHENS — The station master of Greece's Larissa city, who was charged on Thursday (March 2) over the country's worst train crash, assumes some responsibility for the disaster but other factors were also at play, his lawyer said. On Tuesday evening, a passenger train with more than 350 people on board collided head-on with a freight train near the city...

The government has blamed the crash on human error, and a railway official was charged with manslaughter.

The government of Greece has acknowledged the failures in the management of rail systems and the local station master also admitted negligence

The death toll for the incident, which occurred on Tuesday when a passenger train crashed into a freight train in the region of Tempi, currently stands at

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 failures overseeing the rail network.

Greek police raided a train station Friday as part of their probe into the rail collision that killed at least 57 people, as the nation braced for new strikes and protests over the disaster.

By Sana Noor Haq, Chris Liakos, Lindsay Isaac and Eleni Giokos, CNN