The epilogue to the worst train accident in Greek history was written in the last hours at Evangelismos of Tempi, where a passenger train collided with a commercial train late Tuesday evening, killing at least 57 people.

The removal of the third car of the passenger train was completed by noon, and firefighters are now looking for traces of biological material that could help identify the dead.

The finds were handed over to the forensic laboratory, and the wreckage of the train was placed in a special storage facility of the OSN for examination by experts.

Inspection of the site of the tragedy is expected to be completed by the evening, according to ERT.

According to EL.AS, 54 bodies have been identified by DNA testing to date, and the families of 14 victims have been briefed by the head of the Greek Police Identification Team and EL.AS psychologists.

According to Greek police spokeswoman Constantia Dimoglidou, new samples are expected to be sent, which will be examined in the same way in forensic laboratories.

“With regard to the process of informing the relatives of the victims, which is ongoing, by the head of the identification team of the Greek police and psychologists, the family of each victim is given the necessary time, since this is not a formal process. but subtle manipulations are required,” he added.

Among the 48 wounded who are being treated in hospitals, seven women with multiple injuries are in intensive care units. The number of wounded in intensive care increased by one.

Testimony of friends and relatives

Relatives and friends of the missing passenger talk about his loved ones.

“In a month he would have had a birthday, he would have turned 23,” says ERT about his son and the mother addresses. “His ticket was car 5th place 22. He is not among the wounded, he is not yet among the missing. We have no information about his whereabouts. He was in the van from which many children were rescued. I don’t know if he was in his seat at the time of the collision or if he got up to go to the cafeteria.”

“He went to Athens to get his diploma and never came back,” says the brother of another missing person. “We can’t find him anywhere, we’re looking for him, the family doesn’t know anything, the police can’t say anything. The police can’t say anything.”

Relatives and friends attended the funeral of 34-year-old Athena Katsara, a victim of a train accident, in Tempi. It was the first funeral of a person who died in a fatal accident.

Gatherings of schoolchildren and students across the country – “We will be their voice”

Schoolchildren and students staged a protest outside her office Greek train in the morning. Demanding responsibility for the tragic incident, they first gathered outside Propylaea, in the center of Athens. “For the children in Tempi… For their families… And for us…” says the appeal of the Athens Student Coordinating Committee. “This crime cannot be hidden. We will be the voice of all the dead,” was the message on one of the student banners.

Closed from 19:10 Amalia Avenue, at the height of the parliament, in Syntagma, as a new silent protest develops: “We mourn for our dead, we ask for the truth”, organized by the NGO Solidarity for All. a friend close to SYRIZA. The Solidarity for All initiative emphasizes in its call: “We are experiencing an unspeakable tragedy, we mourn the unjust loss of dozens, mostly young people, we ask for the truth.”

Mobilizations have taken place or are ongoing in many regions of Greece, including Thessaloniki, Larissa, Volos, Karditsa, Pyrgos, Kavala and Heraklion.

“The stationmaster was only 15 days in the Larisa station department”

According to the state channel, the head of the station, who admitted that he made a mistake, spent only 15 days at the headquarters of the Larisa station. The man allegedly was notified by the head of the Nei Poros station 16 minutes before the departure of the commercial train.

Three records between the two stations confirm that for 15 minutes the trains moved along the same line, on opposite routes. The head of Larisa station, after an internship at Kalambaka station, also spent two days at Nea Poros station.

Three-member Special Investigation Commission

At the behest of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Secretary of State Giorgos Gerapetritis announced the formation of a Special Committee to investigate and identify systemic problems and malfunctions that led to the Tempe railway tragedy.

The committee consists of three members and includes:

-Ioannis – Konstantinos Chalkias, Honorary Chairman of the State Legal Council, as President.

– Athanassios Ziliascopoulos, Professor of Transport and Manufacturing, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Thessaly, as a member.

– Vassilios Profillides, Professor of Transport Engineering at the Thracian University of Democritus, as a member.

The train driver trusted the stationmaster.

“The driver trusted the stationmaster 1000%, although he shouldn’t have. This is a warning to the driver. The head of the station was an inexperienced worker who was poorly positioned at the Larissa station,” said Nikolaos Tsouridis, a retired machinist instructor, in an interview with SKAI TV channel.

He pointed out that in the conversation between the head of the station and the driver there is one guilty secret. “The driver was a friend of the stationmaster, and, unfortunately, both of them did not follow the standard rules of the service.”

As he said, during the conversation between the station chief and the train driver, the first did not tell the second which line he would follow: “At the exit of Larisa there is two lines, one goes down from Thessaloniki and the other goes up to Thessaloniki. It was then that the head of the station made a fatal mistake. He didn’t tell the driver to leave the uplink or downlink. According to the regulations, the head of the station is obliged to tell the driver which line to follow.. An experienced driver is obliged to ask, and if he does not receive clear instructions, he should not leave.

First processing

Meanwhile, the first lawsuit in the case has already been filed by the lawyer of the much injured, hospitalized in serious condition in the Larisa hospital. A 20-year-old man with multiple injuries, who is also the only survivor of the first car, is also hospitalized in serious condition.