Greek stationmaster jailed pending trial after deadly train crash

A Greek railway employee has been jailed pending trial over a train crash that killed at least 57 people.

The 59-year-old man’s detention on Sunday came as clashes erupted between police and protesters in the Greek capital, Athens.

Thousands of people had rallied in the city to demonstrate for better safety regulation following the head-on collision between a passenger train and a freight carrier on the Athens-Thessaloniki route late in the evening of February 28.

The railway employee, who cannot be named under Greek law, was the stationmaster in the central city of Larissa, where the train crash took place.