Greek PM apologizes to households of 57 killed in head-on prepare collision as protests unfold

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has apologized to the households of the 57 victims who died final week when two trains touring in reverse instructions on the identical observe collided head-on.

Mitsotakis wrote in a Facebook message on Sunday that within the Greece of 2023 it shouldn’t be potential that nobody observed the 2 trains barreling towards one another on the identical observe line.

“As prime minister, I owe everybody, however above all to the kin of the victims, a giant sorry,” Mitsotakis wrote. “Both personally, and within the identify of all those that have dominated the nation for years.”

At least 57 individuals died when a passenger prepare with greater than 350 individuals aboard crashed head-on with a freight service late Tuesday at Tempe, 235 miles north of Athens. Many of the victims have been of their teenagers and 20s.

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Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the location of a crash, the place two trains collided, close to town of Larissa, Greece, on Wednesday. (Reuters/Alexandros Avramidis)

While the federal government initially blamed human error, Mitsotakis wrote that “we will’t, gained’t and shouldn’t conceal behind human error.”

The 59-year-old station grasp accuse of placing each trains on the identical observe faces a number of costs of negligent murder and bodily hurt, in addition to disrupting transportation. 

The wreckage of the trains lie subsequent to the rail traces, after Tuesday’s rail crash, the nation’s deadliest on report, in Tempe, about 235 miles north of Athens, close to Larissa metropolis, Greece, on Friday. (AP Photo/Giannis Papanikos)

Mitsotakis additionally wrote that the head-on crash may have been averted had a digital management system been totally operational.

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Greece has a restricted rail community that does not attain a lot of the nation. Despite years of modernization tasks, a lot of the important thing rail management work remains to be operated by hand.

Riot police operated in opposition to demonstrators throughout clashes in Athens, Greece, on Sunday. Thousands of protesters participate in rallies across the nation for fifth day over the circumstances that led the deaths of dozens of individuals final week in Greece’s worst recorded rail accident. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

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In the wake of the lethal accident, hundreds have rallied in protest over the perceived lack of security measures within the nation’s rail community.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.