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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
Thousands stage sit-ins and demonstrate in Athens to demand justice for the victims of the country's worst train tragedy. The protesters are mostly university students of similar ages to many of the victims of Tuesday's crash. IMAGES
In Paris, a procession of hospital staff set off from the former Val-de-Grâce military hospital, bound for the Ministry of Health, to demand more resources than the 6.3 billion already put on the table by the French government. IMAGES
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