Long-awaited trial into Greece’s deadliest train crash begins

More than 30 people face charges after collision between two trains that killed 57 people in February 2023

A long-awaited trial has begun into Greece’s worst train tragedy, which killed 57 people in 2023, leaving the entire country in shock.

Thirty-six people face charges and more than 350 witnesses are due to be heard at the trial that opened in the central city of Larissa, near where a freight train and a passenger train collided on 28 February 2023.