Trains crash in central Greece, 15 hurt

[Angelo]

Trains crash in central Greece, 15 hurt
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Fifteen people were injured when a passenger train collided with a freight train in central Greece, authorities said.

About 500 passengers were on a train travelling from the northern city of Thessaloniki to the capital, Athens, when it crashed into carriages that had become detached from a cargo train heading in the opposite direction, said the Greek Railway Organisation.

The fire department said rescue crews spent about three hours trying to free the train driver from the wreckage.

The main hospital in the central city of Lamia said 15 people had been admitted, most with minor injuries.

"Most people were asleep," one woman passenger told television outside the hospital in Lamia.

"Bags started falling, and we tried to calm people."

The woman, who did not give her name, said some passengers panicked, fearing the carriages were about to topple over.

"I don't think there were any terrible injuries, but the jolt in the night was enough," she said.

Train crashes are relatively rare in Greece. But two accidents occurred in March. In the first, 23 people were injured when an inter-city passenger train derailed in central Greece. Eight days later a truck crashed into a train in southern Greece, killing the truck driver and injuring two rail passengers.

© 2008 AP



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[Prokomenos]

Luckily nobody was killed and hopefully the injuries are not serious.

[Aniet]

it's not as bad as the derailment we had here in england a couple of months ago do you remember it being on the news?

[mobiledj]

OMG hope the people get better quickly