Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis promised to investigate the causes of the train collision Fox News

According to him, most of the victims of the tragedy are young men. Many students returned to Thessaloniki after a long weekend – Monday was a public holiday in Greece. Recounting meeting relatives of the victims during a visit to the scene and then to a hospital in Larissa, Mitsotakis said: “They asked me why. We have to give them an honest answer,” he added during of a short recorded television appearance.
The controversy erupted on Wednesday over the state of Greece’s rail network, which many consider to be in disrepair. Kostas Genidunias, president of the OSE machinists’ union, denounced what he called a lack of safety on the line, which connects the two main cities of Greece.Greek Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis announced his resignation earlier this month following an accident between a passenger train en route from Athens to Thessaloniki in the north of the country and a freight train. They collided head-on when, for some unknown reason, they drove on the same highway for several miles. The head of the railway station in Larissa, the town in central Greece closest to the site of the accident, was arrested on Wednesday, according to an AFP source, and charged with “negligent homicide”.