Protesters CLASH with Riot Police in Athens After Train Crash

’Protesters CLASH with Riot Police in Athens After Train Crash’ Days of protests have taken place after the deadliest rail disaster in Greece’s history, which left 57 people dead, and dozens more injured. Clashes between protesters and police were reported on Sunday, as an estimated 12,000 people joined a demonstration in the capital Athens. Some protestors set fire to rubbish bins and threw petrol bombs at riot police, but most demonstrated peacefully. Police responded with tear gas and stun grenades. The crash occurred near the city of Larissa, on 28 February, when a passenger and freight train were traveling toward one another, on the same track. The first four carriages of the passenger train were derailed, and the first two caught fire and were almost completely destroyed. The train crash has been widely attributed to human error and a lack of safety measures in the transport network. A station master in Larissa has been cha