LARISSA, Greece—Disbelief turned to despair and anger in Greece on Wednesday after dozens of people were killed in the country’s worst rail disaster in living memory.
Tuesday’s crash 220 miles north of Athens killed at least 36 people when a high-speed passenger train heading to the northern city of Thessaloniki careered into a freight train on the same track coming in the opposite direction, flying off the track and bursting into flames.
Survivors on the passenger train, which had about 350 people on board, said all they could remember was the train coming to a screeching halt, before front compartments were engulfed in flames….