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#BREAKING Train accident in Greece kills at least 16: fire services

#BREAKING Death toll in Greece train accident jumps to at least 26: fire services

#UPDATE A train collision between the Greek cities of Athens and Thessaloniki has killed at least 26 people and injured 85, fire officials say.

"At least 26 people have been found dead so far," a fire services spokesman says, adding that rescue operations are still ongoing

Train accident in Greece kills at least 26.

A fire services spokesman confirmed that three carriages skipped the tracks just before midnight after the trains -- one for freight and the other carrying 350 passengers –- collided

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VIDEO: Death toll rises in Greek train crash.

At least 32 people were killed and another 85 injured after a collision between two trains caused a derailment near the Greek city of Larissa

At least 32 dead, dozens injured after two trains collide in Greece.

"I've never seen anything like this in my entire life," said one rescue worker, emerging from the wreckage. "It's tragic. Five hours later, we are finding bodies"

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#BREAKING Station master arrested after Greek train crash: police

#UPDATE The station master of the central Greek city of Larissa was arrested on Wednesday, police said, hours after a head-on collision between two trains that left at least 36 dead.

#UPDATE At least 36 people were killed and 66 injured when two trains collided head-on near the Greek city of Larissa, authorities said, as emergency services raced Wednesday to find survivors among the charred wreckage.
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Map of Greece locating the town of Larissa and the area where a train derailed between Athens and Thessaloniki
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#UPDATE In Greece's worst train tragedy in decades, two carriages were crushed and a third engulfed in fire when a passenger train and freight train collided in the central city of Larissa.
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#BREAKING 'Tragic human error' caused Greece's worst train crash: Prime Minister

#UPDATE Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday said a "tragic human error" was likely responsible for a train collision that has left at least 38 dead in the country's worst rail tragedy
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Here is a map locating major rail crashes with more than 32 deaths since 2013