With tears in their eyes and flowers in their hands, relatives and friends said goodbye to the 34-year-old girl on her last trip. Athena Katsarainjured in a train accident, in Tempi.

It was the first funeral for a victim of a deadly accident that claimed the lives of dozens of young people.

A memorial service was served at four o’clock in the afternoon at the Holy Church of St. Anne in Katerini. Devastated relatives, along with dozens of friends, former classmates, neighbors, acquaintances and countrymen, rushed to say goodbye for the last time.

Tragic figures, her close relatives, her mother, father, sister and brother, grandparents. The faces of those who knew her and her husband, with whom she rode on the fateful train and who is being treated in Larisa’s hospital with multiple injuries, are tearful and gloomy.

The couple were in the third car, and according to witnesses, Athena got up from her seat to get coffee from the dining room in the train’s second car, which was engulfed in flames and reduced to a shapeless mass of metal structures after the two trains violently collided. . Athletes present at the funeral and members of the Pierikos sports club, with the colors of which her younger brother performs as a football player.

In the courtyard of the church, those who knew her in an undertone discussed how such a young woman, the mother of a two-year-old child and very dear to Katerina’s society, had irretrievably died.

Inside and outside the holy temple, everywhere there is heartache and immense sadness, reflected in the wreaths in the courtyard with the last dedication to “our adored girl”, parents, relatives, family friends, acquaintances who accompanied her with her. last residence.