The tragedy has uncovered a long time of security failings in Greek railways and has put main strain on the conservative authorities forward of nationwide elections.
(AP)
Greek unions will start a 24-hour walkout with demonstrations deliberate in main cities to voice outrage over final month’s prepare catastrophe, which claimed 57 lives.
The strike known as by the nation’s main non-public and public sector unions will disrupt transport and the civil service.
With air site visitors controllers becoming a member of the strike, no passenger flights to or from Greece will take off on Thursday, airports mentioned. Ferry companies can even be suspended.
The deadly crash occurred shortly earlier than midnight on February 28 when a passenger prepare crashed head-on right into a freight prepare in central Greece after each had been mistakenly left working on the identical observe.
A lot of the passengers had been college students coming back from a vacation weekend.
A number of individuals stay in hospital, together with one passenger who’s combating for his life.
Lengthy-running mismanagement
The tragedy has uncovered a long time of security failings in Greek railways and has put main strain on the conservative authorities forward of nationwide elections.
The stationmaster and three different railway officers have been charged, however public anger has centered on long-running mismanagement of the community and the nation has been rocked by a sequence of generally violent mass protests.
Final week, some 65,000 individuals took half in demonstrations across the nation, together with round 40,000 in Athens.
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Vowing a clear probe
Greece’s transport minister resigned after the crash and Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has sought to assuage public anger by repeatedly apologising and vowing a clear probe.
Performing transport minister Giorgos Gerapetritis this week mentioned rail site visitors will step by step resume from March 22.
Gerapetritis on Wednesday mentioned a report by a committee of specialists investigating the tragedy will probably be delivered in a month’s time.
Investigators have individually opened a probe into attainable railway funds mismanagement over the past 15 years.
Gerapetritis and former transport ministers will seem earlier than a parliament committee on Monday to reply MPs’ questions on the tragedy.
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Supply: AFP