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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Derek Gatopoulos and Costas Kantouris

Trial begins over Greece train crash where 57 people were killed, many of them students

The wreckage of the trains lie on the rail lines, after the rail crash - Greece’s deadliest on record, in Tempe, about 376 kilometres (235 miles) north of Athens, near Larissa city - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

A criminal trial opened in Greece Monday over a train collision that killed 57 people, many of them college students, in a disaster that horrified the country and revealed long-neglected safety failures.

The February 2023 crash triggered a fireball on impact and left passengers trapped in mangled rail cars.

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