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Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Railway workers strike in Greece after 46 killed, dozens injured in train crash

Railway workers have gone on strike in Greece after a catastrophic train crash left at least 46 people dead and dozens more injured.

A train from Athens to Thessaloniki carrying 350 passengers – many of them students returning from carnival celebrations – crashed head-on into a freight train in northern Greece shortly before midnight on Tuesday in the country’s deadliest rail crash on record.

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