Shocks the Michaela Froudarakiswhich on the night of February 28 was traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki with the fatal train, which burst into flames after its collision with the commercial train at the height of Tempi.

“We continued the journey and some… died. It was fatal»
The girl describes how she started her journey on this particular train:

“I had entered the train from the beginning of the journey, from Athens. I was all the way. We had stopped for a while in Larissa and were told that there was a 15 minute delay due to the movement of the lines. After a quarter we started normally and some people… died. I don’t do this route often. It was fatal…»

The time of the conflict

“I saw people with blood, by a miracle I was spared»
“At the time of the crash I was watching a movie with a girl sitting next to me. I was in the 4th carriage, about the middle. We got hit too. They say about the 3rd carriage because they had deaths while we had no deaths. Where I was sitting, the other train hit.

Imagine I was wearing headphones, fortunately, because with the collision I fell and my eyes were covered, which fell on glasses. I’m lucky, miraculously I escaped. I saw people with blood. I didn’t suffer anything compared to others.»

“There was confusion…»
The young woman, still in shock, describes in detail how she and her fellow passengers were removed from the train that almost cost them their lives:

“At first we didn’t realize the door was open, we were confused. All we could see was smoke. We could see fires next to us, small ones, the spot was where the other train hit. Confucius prevailed. One door had opened normally but it was from where there was fire and we couldn’t get out. It was the cliff.

I honestly can’t tell if I saw light because of the fire or if it was on the train. I saw the flashlights when we passed the fires. We got down and it was all iron, we went a little further down and we were caught by the merchant train we collided with, some people were falling down and hitting because they couldn’t go forward. We climbed into one of the wagons and crossed to the other side.»

“I saw mutilations, dead, injured, blood everywhere»
“Fortunately it was not completely dark due to fire. It was very big, we could see well against the total darkness. We saw dead people in front of us, I saw a girl holding her severed leg, amputations, dead, injured, blood everywhere. I saw a young man dead on the ground, I didn’t want to see another…»