Fifty-seven are her confirmed dead tragedy in Tempe according to the latest information from the Fire Brigade’s Press Spokesman, Fire Chief Vasilios Vathrakogianni and the Hellenic Police Press Spokesman, Second Police Officer Constantia Dimoglidou. That is, one more than those who have been declared in the list.

As the representative of the Fire Department stated, the investigation and extrication operation at the scene of the railway accident continues.

It is estimated that by tomorrow noon, the search operation will be completed.

The crane vehicles have lifted the two carriages, both the first passenger of the second class, as well as the restaurant carriage.

At the same time, the firefighters are partially removing their metal components in order to facilitate the search and extrication operation.

The conditions under which the forces operate remain difficult, as pieces of the train are amorphous masses from the ferocity of the conflict.

So far they have been officially declared to the Greek police as 56 passengers missing.

The “so far” is emphasized, as there is a possibility that someone may have been on the train and has not been reported missing by relatives or friends.

It should be noted that all bodies are identified by the DNA method.

Also, 48 passengers remain for hospitalizations, the 6 of them in ICU. A passenger with serious burns was transferred to the ICU of the Papanikolaou Hospital, which has a special burn unit.

At this time, the identification process of the victims who have been transferred to the Larissa General Hospital continues.

For the biological identification process so far 55 DNA samples have been taken from the bodies and 52 samples from relatives of the passengers and 26 samples from human limbs.

This specific procedure is carried out by the special forensic laboratories of the Police, on a priority basis – in order to complete this painful procedure.

So far by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations they have been carried out 24 body identifications, 20 by the DNA analysis method, 2 by the DNA analysis method and fingerprints and 2 only by fingerprint analysis method.

Although the DNA process typically takes several days, efforts have been made to be completed by tomorrow.

When the identification is completed, the relatives and friends of the victims will be informed by the Head of the ELAS identification team and the specialist psychologist of the Police and the process of receiving the body will proceed.

THE delivery to relatives it will be done when the process will be completed in its entirety.

The process of informing the relatives and friends of the identified bodies has already started with the update of the first 4 families.

It is recalled that three hotels in the city of Larissa are at the disposal of the relatives of the victims and injured.