Greeks walk off the job to protest over deadly train crash


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  • Thursday, 16 Mar 2023

Flowers and candles are placed at the entrance of Athens central train station during a 24-hour nationwide strike over the country's deadliest train disaster last month, Athens, Greece, March 16, 2023. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

ATHENS (Reuters) -Flights to and from Greece were grounded and ships remained docked at ports on Thursday, as Greek workers walked off the job to protest over the country's deadliest train crash on record which killed 57 people on Feb. 28.

The walkout, called by Greece's largest private and public sector unions, is the latest in a series of protests since the head-on collision of a passenger train with more than 350 people on board, most of them university students, with a freight train in the central Greek region of Tempi.

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