Athens, (SONNA) – The death toll climbed to 38 from a train crash in northern Greece with at least 15 people still missing, media reports said Wednesday.<\/p>\n
At least 72 injured passengers were hospitalized, according to the state-run news agency, AMNA.<\/p>\n
Fifty-seven, including six in intensive care units, are under treatment at nearby hospitals, it said.<\/p>\n
It noted that the victims include nine railway employees and university students returning to school in the northern port city of Thessaloniki from Larissa and Athens.<\/p>\n
Search and rescue teams are working to pull survivors from the wreckage with the aid of at least two cranes, which are being used to remove passenger carriages.<\/p>\n
Ambulances and fire engines are also on-site and psychologists were sent to the Larissa General Hospital to provide support to the families of the victims and passengers.<\/p>\n
Nikos Sguris, one of the rescuers, told Anadolu that there are two major reasons behind the high death toll.<\/p>\n
First, both trains were moving at a fast speed, and second, the fire was further fueled by cooking oil stored in the restaurant area.<\/p>\n
Another volunteer rescuer, Vasilis Iliopoulos, maintained that it is unlikely anyone will come out alive from the wreckage.<\/p>\n
T\u00fcrkiye offers condolences<\/strong><\/p>\n Neighboring T\u00fcrkiye offered condolences, expressing sorrow for the loss of life.<\/p>\n Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan extended condolences to Greece for the fatal crash.<\/p>\n “Stating that he is deeply saddened by the train crash, President Erdogan extended his condolences for those who lost their lives and wished a speedy recovery to the injured,” said a statement by T\u00fcrkiye’s Communications Directorate, following a message from the Turkish leader to Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.<\/p>\n A Turkish Foreign Ministry statement said: \u201cWe have learned with sorrow that many people lost their lives and were injured last night as a result of a train crash in our neighbor Greece.”<\/p>\n \u201cWe extend our condolences to the relatives of those who lost their lives in this tragic accident as well as to the people and government of Greece and wish a speedy recovery to the injured.\u201d<\/p>\n Additionally, in a telephone call, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu conveyed his condolences to his Greek counterpart, Nikos Dendias.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n Source: Anadolu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Athens, (SONNA) – The death toll climbed to 38 from a train crash in northern Greece with at least 15 people still missing, media reports said Wednesday. At least 72 injured passengers were hospitalized, according to the state-run news agency, AMNA. Fifty-seven, including six in intensive care units, are under treatment at nearby hospitals, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":414537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-414536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":414538,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414536\/revisions\/414538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}