A criminal trial opened in Greece on Monday over a train collision that killed 57 people, many of them college students, in a disaster that horrified the country and revealed long-neglected safety failures.
The February 2023 crash triggered a fireball on impact and left passengers trapped in mangled rail cars.
Most of the 36 defendants – all rail and transport officials – face serious charges linked to endangering public transport.
The crash occurred at Tempe in northern Greece after a passenger…
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