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		</div><p>Rescuers using cranes and heavy machinery have been searching the wreckage of trains involved in a deadly collision that sent Greece into national mourning and prompted strikes and protests over rail safety.</p>
<p>The death toll from the head-on crash involving a passenger and freight train remained at 43 as crews check the burned out and twisted carriages for more bodies.</p>
<p>More than 50 people remain in hospital, mostly in the central Greek city of Larissa, with some in a serious condition.</p>
<p>Railway workers’ associations called strikes, halting national services and the subway in Athens, to protest against working conditions and what they described as a lack of modernisation of the Greek rail system.</p>
<p>Wednesday’s collision occurred near the small town of Tempe in northern Greece, when a freight train loaded with heavy construction equipment smashed into a passenger service on Greece’s busiest line between Athens and the country’s second largest city, Thessaloniki.</p>
<figure id="attachment_177961" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-177961" style="width: 768px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DE2440F3-7230-4F5A-8FAA-803128A9259D.jpeg" alt="" width="768" height="534" class="size-full wp-image-177961" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-177961" class="wp-caption-text">A woman lays flowers in memory of the victims of the train crash</figcaption></figure>
<p>More than 300 people were on the train, many of them students returning from a holiday weekend and annual Carnival celebrations.</p>
<p>As Greece reeled from its deadliest ever train disaster, Pope Francis and European leaders sent messages of sympathy.</p>
<p>Among them were the Turkish foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, whose country is recovering from devastating earthquakes last month.</p>
<p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky sent a message in Greek, writing: “The people of Ukraine share the pain of the families of the victims. We wish a speedy recovery to all the injured.”</p>
<p>A stationmaster arrested following the rail disaster is due to appear in court on Thursday as a judicial inquiry tries to establish why the two trains traveling in opposite directions were on the same track.</p>
<p>Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned following the crash, with his replacement tasked with setting up an independent inquiry to look into the causes of the accident.</p>
<p>“Responsibility will be assigned,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a televised address late on Wednesday after visiting the scene of the collision. “We will work so that the words ‘never again’… will not remain an empty pledge. That I promise you.”</p>
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