Following the train disaster in Greece, approximately 50,000 protesters gathered in Athens to demand that the government resign. Protesters carried banners and yelled anti-government chants as they marched. The majority of the demonstrators were public-sector workers who requested that railroad operations be transferred from the private to the public sector.
Protesters clashed with the police from time to time during the march, which continued to the Parliament building at Syntagma Square. About 500 protesters threw marbles, stones, Molotov cocktails and glass bottles at the riot police. The police used sound bombs and tear gas to disperse the enraged crowd. Shops and bus stops were vandalized, and a vehicle was set on fire during the clash between demonstrators and police.
On Wednesday, the passenger train from Athens to Thessaloniki collided head-on with a freight train in Tempi, near the city of Larissa, killing 57 people and leaving another 56 people missing.
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