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Mary-Kate Findon

Watch live as rescue teams work to remove wreckage from deadly Greek train crash

Reuters

Watch live from Greece as rescue teams work to remove wreckage from the site of a train crash which killed at least 43 people.

A freight train and passenger train crashed head-on, throwing carriages off the track before they were engulfed in flames.

Greek prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the collision was “mainly due to a tragic human error" as he visited the site.

Many of the victims of the country's worst-ever train crash were university students returning to Thessaloniki after a holiday weekend.

Greek transport minister Kostas Karamanlis resigned on Wednesday, 1 March, in the wake of the devastating incident.

He said it was “as a basic indication of respect for the memory of the people who died so unfairly.”

Mr Karamanlis also expressed regret over “long-standing failures” to fix a railway system he said is unfit for the 21st century.

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