Derailed Greece train slams into house, 3 killed
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AN express train that slammed into a house after derailing near Greece’s second city Thessaloniki killed three people and seriously injured two others.
Trainose had initially reported four deaths from the accident which occurred at 1640 GMT on Saturday, with five people suffering serious injuries.
It then revised the toll to just two dead, but one of the injured later died.
The company did not identify any of the victims, dead or alive, but said the train driver was among the injured party after all five carriages of the express train travelling from Athens left the track and the engine carriage ploughed into the house.
A 24-year-old man who lived in the house which was hit told reporters that he managed to jump off a balcony to safety just before the crash.
Most of the 70 passengers were safely evacuated within three hours of the accident which happened near the station at Adendro, about 40 kilometers from the northern city of Thessaloniki.
The cause of the derailment was not immediately known, police said, and Trainose said it had opened an investigation.
But a regional official, Voula Patoulidou, said the train might have been traveling too fast as it shuttled between Greece’s two biggest cities. Photos showed at least one carriage on its back.
A senior national railway official, who arrived at the scene, said there had been no problems or incidents reported on that stretch of the railway line.
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