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A passenger train and a freight train were traveling down the same track when they crashed head-on, sending the first two passenger carriages flying into the air, twisting backwards and catching fire.

Greek officials said on Wednesday that a head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight train killed at least 36 people and injured about 85

A passenger train with 342 passengers and cargo train collided at high speeds. A local station master has been arrested.

Greece's Infrastructure and Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis has resigned following a fatal head-on collision of two trains that occurred in central Greece three days back. At least 36 died in the crash."It is what I feel my duty to do ...

Uniindia: Athens, Mar 1 (UNI) The death toll from the collision of two trains in central Greece on late Tuesday night has increased to 36, while 66 injured people were still hospitalized, including six in serious condition in intensive care units, the Greek Fire Service said on Wednesday.

Three days of national mourning have been announced

Many of the victims are believed to be university students who were returning home after an extended weekend to celebrate Carnival, which precedes Lent. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue efforts continue.

TEMPE (Greece), Mar 1: A passenger train carrying hundreds of people collided at high speed with an oncoming freight train in a fiery wreck in northern Greece, killing 32 and injuring at least 85, officials said Wednesday. Multiple cars derailed and at least three burst into flames after the collision near the town of Tempe on Tuesday just before midnight. Rescue crews illuminated the scene with floodlights before dawn on Wednesday as they searched frantically through the twisted, smoking wrecka...

Two carriages were crushed and a third engulfed in fires as hot as 1300 degrees C when a passenger train and a freight train late Tuesday collided near the central city of Larissa

ATHENS, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Greece will do everything possible so that a tragedy like the one it is currently faced with will never happen again, Greek Prime Mi