Greece train crash: 57 confirmed dead as public anger grows - BBC News

Now the number of people killed in the

train

accident in Greece has risen to 57. There have been protests in the country after the accident demonstrating their confrontation with the police in front of the headquarters of the company responsible for maintaining Greece's railways. Three days of national mourning have passed. declared across the country following the accident in which a passenger

train

collided head-on with a freight train causing the front cars to burst into flames is our correspondence for Europe Nick Peak the consequences of the worst railway disaster ever to occur in Greece, a Station chief in a nearby city has now been charged with negligent homicide and the country's prime minister is already saying tragic human error was to blame, but that has sparked

anger

overnight, even in the capital, Athens, because for years it has been warned that the railway network was not safe, this surgeon who came out of retirement to help the injured says that many young lives lost were victims of systemic failures it is a disaster it is catastrophic families are crying tonight Unfortunately most of the injuries of the lost people are young students who left home happy after the long weekend to go for their studies to see or to see their relatives and never reach their case this is one of the hospitals where the survivors and injured have been treated is also where some family members have been coming to give their DNA in the hope that perhaps some kind of samples recovered from the scene today will be compared to those of their loved ones who are still missing.

The force of the explosions was captured on camera. Two fireballs passing through the cars visiting the remains. Greece's Transport Minister became emotional when talking about the country's broken train. Red then resigned. It is not known exactly how many passengers are missing, but many families are now facing an agonizing weight.