The spokesman for the fire department, Mr. Yiannis Artofios, told K about people being thrown from vans into neighboring fields.

“The first light of day highlights the scale of the tragedy. The head-on collision was so severe that some were thrown out of the cars and forcibly thrown out of the train, some alive and found in the adjacent fields, which we have also been investigating since dawn,” he said.

He noted that the business is focused on the first two cars. “We are trying very carefully to collect their debris to see if there are people trapped there. However, the fact that they are fully tilted makes the business even more challenging.”

Mr Artofios added that “there are also two rescue dogs who are trying to find people trapped.”

It is noted that as a result of a collision of two trains in Tempi, 32 people were killed and 85 were injured.

Relatives of passengers on the Athens-Thessaloniki train can call the Larissa Police Department numbers 2410683175 and 2410683176 to obtain information about the passengers who made it to Thessaloniki safely and for whom they were transferred to the police station. hospitals.