Greece completes rescue work after train crash
- March 3, 2023
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rescue work after the crash two trains last Tuesday evening in Greece, they run out this Friday, as search efforts continue dozens of disappeared and to identify the
rescue work after the crash two trains last Tuesday evening in Greece, they run out this Friday, as search efforts continue dozens of disappeared and to identify the majority of victims of the incident who are already at least 57.
Work at the crash site will be completed this Friday, firefighters said, and the first three cars of the passenger train will be moved to another site where they can also be inspected by police.
Official figures from the Greek authorities indicate that so far 36 out of 57 collision victims.
All identified are on a list of 56 missing persons, which is in the hands of the authorities, police said.
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The identification process is progressing slowly as most corpses they are calcined What impossible to identify without proof DNA.
Three days after the tragedy, it still exists confusion about him exact number of passengers that he was on the train, since there were people who boarded the Larissa station and bought tickets from the conductors, so they are not on the Greek Train list.
official list passengers includes 342 passengers and 10 railway workers. There were two engineers in the cargo column.
Fifty people left today hospitalizedMost of them students aged 20 to 25, six of them are intubated in intensive care.
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The incident occurred shortly before midnight on Tuesday (22:00 Moscow time) north of the Greek city of Larisa, when a passenger train collided face to face with other cargo with two drivers.
authorities focus their research to find out why big Bang following a collision between two railroads, according to a video broadcast by public television ERT.
According to local media, firefighters In the second car, which served as a restaurant, they found two gas cylinders.
The presence of a possible excess oil in containers which are used for braking system trains.
Prosecutor of the Supreme Court of Greece Isidoros Dogiakos ordered the prosecutor’s office of Larissa investigate exhaustively causes of the accident and define guilty “whoever they are.”
Meanwhile, the dissatisfaction of citizens is growing, calls for demonstrations this Friday all over Greece ask clarify what happened.
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unions railroad workers called for a new 24 hour strike protest against the situation in the sector, denouncing the lack of modern systems safety that could prevent such accidents.
Although Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke of an unfortunate “human error”, government spokesman Yiannis Ikonomou admitted on Thursday that at the site where the accident occurred security systems did not worke.g. electronic guide or light signaling.
The Italian state company Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane operates the Hellenic Train, although the country’s railway infrastructure, including security systems, is managed by the state body OSE.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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