Wreckage cleared, days after deadly Greek rail disaster

By DEREK GATOPOLOS and COSTAS KANTOURIS
Associated Press

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Recovery crews in northern Greece have cleared the final sections of wreckage from a deadly train collision from the tracks, as protests and political fallout from the country’s worst ever rail disaster continue. Heavy construction machinery was used Monday to move remaining parts of shattered rail cars at Tempe 375 kilometers (235 miles) north of Athens, where 57 people were killed in the Feb. 28 crash. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, responding to a Greek request, announced that experts from the European Union Agency for Railways would visit Greece this week.