(ANSA-AFP) - ATHENS, MAR 8 - Greece faces a fresh round of
mass strikes and nationwide protests on Wednesday as anger
mounts over the country's worst rail tragedy that killed 57
people last week. Fourteen people remain in hospital after a
freight train crashed head-on with a passenger train, carrying
mostly students, near the central city of Larissa on February
28. A station master, who admitted forgetting to reroute one of
the trains, has been arrested and charged with negligent
homicide and transport disruption. He faces life in jail if
convicted. But public anger remains widespread in Greece over
decades of government mismanagement of the rail network and a
failure to pursue safety reforms. On Wednesday, Greek civil
servants are to stage a fresh 24-hour walkout alongside doctors,
schoolteachers, bus drivers and ferry crew. Railways will remain
paralysed for an eighth straight day, as train workers extend
strike action they launched in the aftermath of the accident.
(ANSA-AFP).
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Greece faces fresh strikes, protests over rail crash
Tragedy killed 57 people last week