Disbelief Turns to Anger as Greeks Seek Train Crash Missing

Rescuers operate at the site of a crash, where two trains collided, near the city of Larissa, Greece, on March 1, 2023. Alexandros Avramidis/Reuters

LARISSA, Greece—Disbelief turned to despair and anger in Greece on March 1 after dozens of people were killed in the country’s worst rail disaster in living memory.

Feb. 28’s crash 220 miles north of Athens killed at least 36 people when a high-speed passenger train heading to the northern city of Thessaloniki careered into a freight train on the same track coming in the opposite direction, flying off the track and bursting into flames.