Cylinders or fragments of liquefied gas cylinders in the wider area of ​​the railway accident in Tempeemphasizes in his statement Fire Departmentabout relevant media reports.

In particular, the fire department said in a statement: “In connection with recent media reports of the discovery of two LPG cylinders at the site of a train accident in Tempi, the fire department clarifies that no bottles and fragments of LPG cylinders were found at the train crash site in Tempi. Therefore, the relevant press reports, which were even attributed to the representative of the fire department, do not correspond to reality.

57 dead – 36 identified

Confirmed dead as a result of the tragedy in St. Tempewhile 36 bodies have been identified, according to the latest fire and police update (Today, Friday, 12:20).

Police spokesman Constantia Dimoglidou clarified that the death toll includes those who were initially declared missing. “At the moment, some people make the mistake of adding to the number of found dead those who were reported missing by relatives immediately after the accident. The death toll includes those who were initially announced,” he said.

According to Ms. Dimoglidu, 36 dead have been identified from samples obtained by the Criminal Investigation Department of the police, noting that the process of identifying bodies using the DNA method is carried out by special forensic laboratories. In addition, he said, 11 families have already been informed by the head of the Greek police identification team and police psychologists and added that this painful process is ongoing.

“In laboratories, the identification process is carried out 24 hours a day, and any other work is suspended in order to complete the entire identification process as quickly as possible,” he said.

38 wounded in hospitals – 7 in intensive care

At the same time, Ms. Dimoglidou stressed that 38 wounded are being treated in hospitals, seven of them in intensive care units (ICUs).

For his part, the spokesman for the fire department, fire chief Vassilis Vatrakoyannis, said the search operation was estimated to be completed by noon. According to him, the crane trucks transported two carriages, the first second-class passenger car and a dining car, which facilitated operational search activities.

At the same time, since yesterday evening, firefighters have been scanning both the shapeless masses of wagons and the ground. “Our goal is, on the one hand, the possible identification of the missing, and on the other, the possible collection of even small samples of biological material that will be used in the biological identification process. It is expected that the investigative operation will be completed by noon,” said Mr. Vatrakoyannis.

Criminal prosecution of the head of the station

Yesterday, the 59-year-old stationmaster was charged with negligent serial homicide, reckless bodily harm and disruption of transport.

Yesterday he was taken to the prosecutor and investigator of Larisa, from whom he asked and received a sentence and is expected to apologize next Saturday.

Although, according to information from the police, he initially tried to attribute the accident to an electronic system failure, during the pre-investigation apology he admitted that he had made a mistake.

“The accused is literally devastated and has already taken on part of the duties assigned to him,” his lawyer Stefanos Pantzartsidis told reporters.

Research in all directions is required Is. Dogiakos

The prosecutor of the Supreme Court by a new resolution asks the prosecutor’s office of Larisa to expand investigative actions that go beyond the powers of the head of the station in all directions and to immediately collect material evidence from the scene of the tragedy.

Mr. Isidoros Dogiakos primarily refers to the need to collect evidence from the scene of the tragedy in order to facilitate the investigation, while he persistently raises questions of expanding investigative actions in all directions.

“The hour of justice has come,” he emphasizes in his instruction to the head of the Larissa Prosecutor’s Office of Appeal, Stamatis Daskalopoulos, who has been entrusted with overseeing all investigations from the first moment of the unthinkable tragedy.