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Clashes break out between police and protesters in central Athens, as police fire tear gas at firebomb-throwing protesters outside parliament during a large demonstration to protest last week's deadly train crash. Dozens of masked, black-clad protesters hurl Molotov cocktails and stones at riot police as more than 40,000 take to the streets of the capital. IMAGES
Demonstrators in Athens, Greece, stage fresh protests amid a 24-hour general strike to voice outrage over last month's train disaster, which claimed 57 lives. The February 28 tragedy has exposed decades of safety failings in Greek railways and has put major pressure on the conservative government ahead of national elections expected in May. IMAGES
Tens of thousands demonstrate in central Athens as public anger mounts at Greece's worst rail tragedy. Fifty-seven people were killed, and 14 others remain in hospital after a freight train crashed head-on with a passenger train, carrying mostly students, on February 28. IMAGES
Protesters gather outside Athens Academy ahead of a march to Syntagma Square, after a train disaster that killed 57 people and sparked anger across the country. A police spokesperson in Athens said around 23,000 people are on the streets of central Athens, as the dilapidated rail network and technical failures are blamed for the head-on collision between two trains. IMAGES
Striking railway workers join thousands of protesters at a rally in Athens to release black balloons into the sky in anger and grief as widespread outrage grows across Greece over the country's worst rail disaster that killed 57 people. The demonstrators number in the thousands, according to police, after calls by students, rail workers and public sector employees as train and metro services were paralysed by strike action. IMAGES
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