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Matt Watts

Greek police fire tear gas at protesters in Athens amid violent clashes on rail disaster anniversary

Police in Athens have fired tear gas at demonstrators hurling rocks and petrol bombs during clashes outside Greece’s Parliament on the second anniversary of a train crash that killed 57 people.

Following hours of peaceful mass rallies in the Greek capital to mark two years since the Tempe rail disaster, youths with hammers smashed paving stones, throwing the rubble and makeshift firebombs at police.

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