The first detailed report on the tragic incident in St. Tempe who claimed the lives of 57 people, released today, on Saturday, Greek trainstating that he has been closely cooperating with rescuers and services from the very first minutes after the accident, and also supports the relatives of the victims in every possible way.

Speaking about the number of passengers, she notes that the list she handed over to the authorities only includes the names of the passengers who bought the ticket online. He also states that there were no LPG bottles on the train.

“These days are especially difficult for the whole country and for our company, which lost 9 workers in the accident. Hellenic Train expresses condolences to the relatives of the victims, whom it supports in every possible way.

Hellenic Train, a passenger and freight company, has been working closely with rescuers and operators since the first minutes after the accident caused by the collision of two trains in Tempi, in the midst of the Annunciation.

Hellenic Train personnel were at the scene of the accident from the very beginning and provided support in cooperation with the authorities, the Civil Protection Service and rescue teams, and through the Civil Protection Service they supported the mobilization of psychologists who were supposed to be in hospitals.

In addition, Hellenic Train provided buses to facilitate the transport of passengers who managed to disembark at their final destination, Thessaloniki. Immediately after the incident, a special call center of the company was launched in full force in order to provide information and contact the competent authorities for information about the accident.

Hellenic Train clarifies that the list of passenger names provided to the authorities only includes passengers who bought an online ticket.

In the case of passengers who bought tickets at the box office, their ticket, although it corresponded to a specific place, was not personalized. The company says that the number of tickets sold never exceeds the number of seats offered.

On long-distance trains, all tickets correspond to specific seats and therefore, regardless of the method of purchase, be it online, at the box office or on the train, the number of tickets sold can never exceed the number of available seats.

Hellenic Train confirms that there are no LPG tanks on the train. The service equipment in the dining car is electrical.

The company continues its work, helping and supporting the victims, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Transport and all relevant authorities.”

New facts come to light

New information on the circumstances under which the tragedy occurred in Tempe meanwhile they see the light of day. According to the SKAI TV channel, the 59-year-old head of the station, a few hours before the collision of two trains, sent a local train – a suburban train of Larisa – onto the wrong tracks.

According to the same information, the commuter train driver understood and pointed out the mistake by reversing the train to get back on the right track.

According to the channel, a tape recorder of one of the two trains was also found at the crash site, but it has not yet been specified which train it belonged to.

Conversations between the driver of the Intercity train and the head of the station, Larisa, are also under the microscope of the authorities.

According to the Alfa TV channel, the driver of the Intercity train asked the head of the station, “I’m on the way down, is everything all right with me?” The head of the station Larisa, according to the same report, did not give an answer.

The first words of the station master

It is reported that the head of the Larisa station immediately after the arrest was in a very bad psychological state.

According to ERT, he allegedly shouted to those who saw him: “I carry 35 coffins on my back…”.

The stationmaster received a new term

Larissa’s stationmaster received a new deadline for Sunday morning to apologize for the tragic accident at Tempe.

The stationmaster faces serious charges of violating traffic safety, a crime that is prosecuted under a recent amendment to the Criminal Code as a felony and carries a sentence of ten years to life in prison.

He also faces charges of serial manslaughter, as many as the number of people who died, but also charges of inflicting bodily harm with the same criminal qualification as the wounded who got out alive.

However, according to the indictment filed against him, the omissions are serious, they are not limited to his mistake in sending the train in the wrong direction, but continue, as from the electronic system operating to the point in Larisa, he could see the train that started off incorrectly and correct his fatal decision.

Expansion of the study

In the same time, as “K” wrote todayin search of criminal liability for the tragedy against officials who had the duty to appoint the head of the station as the shift supervisor to the responsible post of Larisa, the prosecutor’s office acts immediately.

According to the information, the head of all investigative actions, the head of the Larissa Appeal Prosecutor’s Office, Stamatis Daskalopoulos, asked that investigative actions be directed to search for all the data on how the inexperienced head of the station was alone in the Larissa Appeal Center for 4 days. mail, and indeed, when during the three days of Maslenitsa Monday, train traffic was intense.

55 of the 57 dead have been identified.

An additional death was previously identified from samples examined at forensic laboratories, bringing the total number of identified victims of the tragic Tempe train accident to 55.

Recall that the total number of confirmed deaths at the moment is 57 people.

According to the latest reports from the headquarters of the Greek army, there are also two samples of biological material provided by relatives that do not match the samples of the dead. This cannot rule out the final number of casualties, but laboratory testing procedures have not yet been completed.