Strikes and protests over deadly train crash bring Greece to standstill


FILE PHOTO: People release 57 hot-air lanterns in front of the main train station in Athens, to mark the one-year anniversary of a deadly train crash, which killed 57 people, in Athens, Greece, February 28, 2024. REUTERS/Louisa Gouliamaki/File Photo

ATHENS (Reuters) -Striking workers grounded flights and halted sea and train transport across Greece on Friday and people gathered for protests in anger over a perceived lack of justice two years after the country's worst-ever train crash killed 57 people.

A passenger train filled with students collided with a freight train on February 28, 2023, near the Tempi gorge in central Greece. Two years later, the safety gaps that caused the crash have not been filled, an inquiry found on Thursday. A separate judicial investigation remains unfinished and no one has been convicted in the accident.

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