Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis offers up an apology to the victims of the Greek train crash as thousands of protesters swam the streets of Athens.
abc.net.au/news/thousands-protest-in-athens-after-greeces-deadly-train-crash/102056610Clashes have erupted briefly between police and a group of demonstrators in central Athens on the fringes of a protest by thousands of students and railway workers over Greece's deadliest train crash in living memory.
At least 57 people were killed and dozens were injured on Tuesday when a passenger train with more than 350 people on board collided with a freight train on the same track in central GreeceAfter protests over the past three days across the country, some 10,000 students, railway workers and groups affiliated with leftist parties gathered in an Athens square on Sunday to express sympathy for the lives lost and to demand better safety standards on the rail network.
The train, travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki, was packed with university students returning after a long holiday weekend.Some 10,000 people gathered at a town square in Athens in a public outpouring of grief and anger over the country's deadliest rail disaster. "As prime minister, I owe everyone, but most of all the relatives of the victims, an apology," the prime minister wrote on Facebook.
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