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Live updates: Train crash in Greece – at least 38 killed in head-on collision

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Police and emergency crews search the particles of a crushed wagon after a practice crash close to Larissa on Wednesday morning. (Zekas Leonidas/Eurokinissi/AFP/Getty Pictures)

Not less than 36 folks had been killed, and greater than 85 others had been wounded when two trains collided in northern Greece on Tuesday night time, the Greek Fireplace Service says.

A spokesman, Vassilis Varthakogiannis, mentioned in a televised briefing that a passenger practice carrying greater than 350 folks collided with a freight practice shortly earlier than midnight native time within the space of Tempi, central Greece, close to the town of Larissa.

The passenger practice was touring from Athens to Thessaloniki.

Rescuers are nonetheless within the strategy of figuring out the useless, Varthakogiannis mentioned in an up to date briefing, including that 150 firefighters and first responders are engaged on website. 

As of now 66 persons are being handled in hospital, with six in intensive care models.  

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The collision follows a nationwide carnival on the weekend which ended with a public vacation on Monday.

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