¿ostas Ajileas Karamanlís has emphasized that in 2019, when he was appointed head of the transport portfolio, he assumed responsibility for a railway sector “in a situation that does not correspond to the 21st century”.
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The Greek Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Ostas Ajileas Karamanlisannounced his resignation on Wednesday due to the serious collision of two trains which took place last night in central Greece and left at least 40 dead and dozens injured.
“I am resigning as Minister of Infrastructure and Transport. I feel it is my duty to do so as a minimal tribute to the memory of those who died so unjustly,” Karamanlis said in a post on his Twitter account. account. .
The Conservative minister has stressed that in 2019, when he was appointed head of the Transport portfolio, he took responsibility for a rail sector “in a situation that does not correspond to the 21st century”.
“In these three and a half years, we have done everything we can to improve this reality,” he emphasizes, while acknowledging that “unfortunately, these efforts were not enough to prevent such an accident.”
The head of Larissa Railway Station in Northern Greece arrested while his possible responsibility in the frontal collision of the trains is determined.
Following the accident, authorities proceeded to question some officials involved in rail traffic in an attempt to clarify the reasons why the two trains, which had been running on the same track for some time, collided head-on.
Around midnight, a freight train and a passenger train of the company Hellenic Train collided. According to preliminary reports, the passenger train – in which 350 people were on board and which made the route Thessaloniki (north) to Larisa (centre) – had diverted to the wrong lane, where the trade train was driving. Due to the collision, the derailment of three wagons of the passenger train and a fire.
“Wagons one and two do not exist. Due to the severity of the collision, they were ejected,” Thessaly regional governor Kostas Agorastos told ERT, explaining that the injured included people with burns and mutilations.
For his part, the mayor of Temp2, Giorgos Manoli, has assured that in the first three cars they have developed temperatures from 1,200 to 1,500 ºC.
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Source: EITB
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