{"id":559527,"date":"2023-03-02T09:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=559527"},"modified":"2023-03-02T10:45:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T05:15:57","slug":"i-heard-a-bang-then-chaos-survivors-recount-greece-train-crash-horror-36-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/i-heard-a-bang-then-chaos-survivors-recount-greece-train-crash-horror-36-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I heard a bang, then chaos&#8217;: Survivors recount Greece train crash horror, 36 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took a bang, and just seconds to turn a long holiday weekend into a nightmare for hundreds of Greeks caught up in a deadly train wreck on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday&#8217;s train 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 from the opposite direction, flying off the track and bursting into flames. Witnesses said they felt a strong shudder, then a bang, then chaos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Windows were being smashed and people were screaming,&#8221; said a passenger on the fifth carriage. &#8220;One of the windows caved in from the impact of iron from the other train,&#8221; the passenger told Skai TV as he took shelter under a nearby bridge,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took a bang, and just seconds to turn a long holiday weekend into a nightmare for hundreds of Greeks caught up in a deadly train wreck on Tuesday night. Tuesday&#8217;s train 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 from the opposite direction, flying off the track and bursting into flames. Witnesses said they felt a strong shudder, then a bang, then chaos. &#8220;Windows were being smashed and people were screaming,&#8221; said a passenger on the fifth carriage. &#8220;One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-railways-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}