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At least 29 people were killed in a collision between a freight train and passenger train in central Greece on Tuesday night,

A passenger train carrying hundreds of people, including many university students returning home from holiday, has collided at high speed with an oncoming freight train. The fiery wreck in northern Greece killed at least 36 people and injured some 85. Officials said Wednesday that multiple train cars derailed and at least three caught fire after the crash of the Athens to Thessaloniki train. Survivors say several passengers were thrown through the windows of the train cars due to the impact. The...

A passenger train and an oncoming freight train collided in a fiery wreck in northern Greece Wednesday, killing at least 36 people, officials said.

At least 36 people were killed and 85 were injured when a passenger train collided with a freight train in Greece on Tuesday evening.

The number of people killed by a collision of passenger and cargo trains in northern Greece has risen to 32, while 53 out of 85 wounded people still remain in hospitals, Hellenic Fire Service spokesperson Vassilis Vartakoyannis said on Wednesday.Earlier in the day, two trains collided around midnigh ..

Greek authorities have arrested a railroad station master after a passenger train collision that killed dozens. Local media described the incident as the country's deadliest train accident.

Derailed carriages, badly damaged with broken windows and thick plumes of smoke, could be seen on the site

Update 1: Updates death and injury toll, adds updates, quotes throughout Athens, Mar 1 (EFE).- At least 36 people died after the collision of two trains north of Larissa, in central Greece, the fire department reported, while 66 people remain hospitalized, six of them in intensive care units. In all, some 130 people were injured, …

Greek police say the stationmaster in the city of Larissa has been arrested following the nearby train crash that left at least 36 people dead.

By COSTAS KANTOURIS and DEREK GATOPOULOS Associated Press