The members of a special committee that will investigate and identify the systemic problems and dysfunctionalities that led to the tragic rail accident in Tempi were announced on Friday by Minister of State Giorgos Gerapetritis, who has taken over the leadership of the infrastructure and transport ministry after Kostas Karamanlis resigned.
Appearing on SKAI television on Friday to talk about the procedures following after the train disaster in Tempi, Health Minister Thanos Plevris noted that all the work to record the passengers killed or injured in the crash was done by EKAB ambulance crews, with no help from the company.
Authorities should provide an official list of people missing after the deadly collision of two trains on Tuesday night, SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance spokeswoman Popi Tsapanidou said on Thursday.
Government spokesperson Yiannis Economou began his regular press briefing on Thursday by expressing his deep sorrow over the tragic train accident in Tempi that "has shocked us all".
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The teachers and students of the 3rd General High School of Heraklion in Crete have sent resounding and heartbreaking messages in the aftermath of the fatal accident in Tempi after the collision of two trains.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke about the Tempi fatal train disaster in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday evening.
Main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras visited the site of the train crash in Tempi on Wednesday, stating that "these are moments of deep pain and grief, the images I saw were shocking".
At least 43 people are dead and 57 have been hospitalized after a passenger train and a freight train collided on Tuesday night (local time) near the city of Larissa in Greece, according to local authorities.
A doctor from the Larissa University Hospital made known on her Facebook the heroic act of a 20-year-old passenger of a fatal passenger train in Tempi, who managed to break the glass of one of the train carriages and save at least ten of his fellow passengers.
The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou cut short her official visit to Moldova on Wednesday and returned to Greece, with her plane landing at Larissa airport, from where she was taken to the site of the train accident in Tempi.
"This is a day of unspeakable grief at the unprecedented train accident with multiple deaths at Tempi, but also of fury at how it was possible for human lives to be lost in this tragic way," Communist Party of Greece (KKE) General Secretary Dimitris Koutsoumbas said on Wednesday, regarding the train collision at Tempi.
Infrastructure & Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned on Wednesday, following the fatal train crash at Tempi.
Belgian judicial authorities will announce later this week whether Greek MEP and former European Parliament vice president Eva Kaili should be released from pre-trial detention with an electronic bracelet, her lawyer has said on Tuesday.
Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis in a statement to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA) welcomed the agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom on Northern Ireland reached on Monday.
275 Rescue workers are in a desperate search for survivors after a head-on collision between two trains in central Greece killed dozens of people and injured scores.At least 29 people were killed and more than 85 injured when a passenger train carrying more than 350 people collided with a freight train on Tuesday evening, shortly before midnight, in Tempi, central Greece, near the city of Larissa, the Greek Fire Service said.
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Hundreds of people in Piraeus, of all ages, flooded Freatida Beach on Clean Monday, and there Olympiacos also contributed to the festivities by offering food.
The period leading up to the Greek Orthodox Easter, or Pascha, the most important religious feast of the year, is called Sarakosti, signifying 40 days of Great Lent.
Hundreds of US soldiers are expected to arrive this week in Alexandroupolis, Greece in order to facilitate the shipment of American and NATO weapons and personnel to Central and Eastern Europe, a local news website reported on Sunday.
