GREECE: THIRTY-FOUR DIE IN RAIL COLLISION

Record ID: 588424

  • Title: GREECE: THIRTY-FOUR DIE IN RAIL COLLISION
  • Date: 1st October 1968
  • Summary: MAN ON DONKEY PAST CRASH; VARIOUS SHOTS OF WRECKAGE; PEOPLE LOOKING; WELDER AT WORK. Initials JSU/VS/CT/PC Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th October 1968 13:00
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  • Location: CORINTH, GREECE
  • Country: Greece
  • Reuters ID: LVAEHRW2PG54RP8897HTACF16B28
  • Story Text: THIRTY-FOUR PEOPLE DIED AND AT LEAST 150 WERE INJURED WHEN A TRAIN PLOUGHED INTO THE BACK OF ANOTHER NEAR CORINTH YESTERDAY (MONDAY).

    THE TRAINS WERE PACKED WITH GREEKS RETURNING TO ATHENS FROM THE PROVINCES AFTER VOTING IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM ON SUNDAY (29 SEPTEMBER).

    POLICE SAID LAST NIGHT WAS BELIEVED THE FIRST TRAIN HALTED ON THE SINGLE-TRACK PATRAS TO ATHENS LINE AFTER A PASSENGER ACCIDENTIALLY PULLED THE EMERGENCY STOP CORD.

    THE SECOND TRAIN CRASHED INTO IT FROM BEHIND. TWO COACHES OVERTURNED, TRAPPING MANY PASSENGERS IN THE DEBRIS.

    THE GOVERNMENT ORDERED TROOPS TO HELP IN THE RESCUE WORK AS THE INJURED WERE RUSHED TO HOSPITAL.
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