A second 24-hour strike was called for Friday. Railway workers’ associations called strikes, halting national rail services and the subway in Athens to protest working conditions and what they described as a dangerous failure to modernize the rail system. WORKERS, RELATIVES SAY TRAIN SYSTEM UNSAFE “I’ve been trying since yesterday afternoon to communicate with the company to find out what seat my father was in,” he said. He said phone calls to Italian-owned train operator Hellenic Train have been fruitless. The testing was necessary because many of the bodies were burned or mangled beyond recognition.Īmong the dozens of grieving relatives who spent a second day at the hospital awaiting results Thursday was Dimitris Bournazis, whose father and 15-year-old brother remain unaccounted for. She said 24 bodies have been identified through DNA so far. Larissa residents lined up to give blood, many waiting in heavy rain for more than an hour, while the city’s hotel association provided free accommodation to relatives of the crash victims.ĭNA matching was going fast, with at least four families - in the presence of psychologists - receiving confirmation Thursday that their relatives were among the dead, said police spokeswoman Constandia Dimoglidou.ĭimoglidou said the process usually takes several days but authorities are making an effort to finish by Friday.
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