The death toll from Tuesday night’s horrific train collision in north-central Greece – just south of the Tempi Valley Gorge – on Thursday rose to 57, according to the coroner’s office in the central city of Larissa.
Many of the recovered bodies over the past 24 hours are completely charred, a coroner said, indicative of the ferocious crash and subsequent scorching fires that erupted in the first three carriages of a passenger train that collided head-on with a freight train.
Even more macabre is the fact that coroners and medical staff are conducting DNA testing on every body part recovered by first responders since the early morning hours of Wednesday, with the samples called numerous.
Six of the injured passengers remained in critical condition on Thursday, out of the 54 in total that were hospitalized. Two surgeries were reported on minors with cranial injuries.
