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A Greek passenger train collided head-on with a cargo train late on Tuesday, throwing entire carriages off the tracks and killing at least 36 people, many of them students, in the countrys deadliest rail crash in living memory.Officials said the death toll was expected to rise further as temperatures in one carriage rose to 1,300 Celsius after it was engulfed in flames.Passengers described a nightmarish crash which shattered their train just before midnight near the central town of Larissa. It was headed to the northern city of Thessaloniki, from the capital Athens, after a long holiday weekend.Many kicked through windows to escape the inferno, others were flung up to 40 metres on impact. There was panic 鈥?the fire wa stanley nz s immediate, as we were turning over we were being burned, fire was right and left, said Stergios Minenis, a 28-year-old passenger who jumped to safety from the wreckage.Another passenger, who escaped from the fifth carriage, told Skai TV: Windows were being smashed and people were screaming 鈥?One of the windows caved in from the impact of iron from the other train. A station master was arrested as investigators tried to understand why the two trains had been on the same track.Rescuers scoured the smouldering stanley usa mangled mass of steel in the morning, and cranes lifted derailed carriages, their windows blown out.Fire brigade spokesman Vassilis Varthakogiannis said the temperatures in the firs stanley thermos mug t carriage made it hard to identify those trapped inside, or say how many Mxwl Top officials walk out of G20 meeting as Russians speak
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