Greek trains to resume 'gradually' from March 22 after crash
Rail traffic will resume "gradually" in Greece from March 22 as the country reels from its deadliest train crash, the transport minister said on Tuesday, AFP reports.
Fifty-seven people, many of them students, were killed when a passenger train and freight train collided head-on in central Greece on February 28. Rail traffic, halted after the incident at Tempe, 350 kilometres (220 miles) from Athens, "will gradually resume from March 22," Transport Minister George Gerapetritis said. Four railway officials have been charged, but public anger has focused on long-running mismanagement of the network and the country has been rocked by a series of sometimes violent mass protests. On Sunday, about 12,000 demonstrators gathered outside parliament, while 5,000 took to the streets of the second city Thessaloniki, police said.
