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7 schoolchildren killed in crash Speeding truck smashes into school coach on notoriously dangerous stretch of Greece’s national highway Seven teenagers from central Greece on a school trip to Athens for the last day of the Paralympic Games were killed yesterday morning when a speeding truck smashed into their coach on a notorious stretch of the main highway linking northern and southern Greece. Twenty-six of the 37 15- and 16-year-olds on the bus and all four teachers from the Farkadona senior high school near Trikala were injured in the crash on a coastal bend near Asproneri, 173 kilometers (107 miles) northwest of Athens.

FRONT PAGE NEWS

Transfer scandal ousts Vougias

Four days after the revelation that his student daughter had secured a preferential transfer from a provincial university to her hometown of Thessaloniki, Spyros Vougias yesterday resigned as press spokesman for the main opposition party, PASOK.

Greece to build jail in Albania

Greece has agreed in principle to build a jail in Albania to exclusively house Albanian prisoners currently serving long-term sentences in Greek prisons, thereby alleviating the problem of overcrowding, Justice Minister Anastassis Papaligouras said yesterday.

Migrant ship runs aground

An Egyptian trawler carrying some 80 illegal immigrants ran aground near Matala, southern Crete, yesterday after battling the elements for more than 24 hours.

Stratis Tsirkas’s book collection left to rot

An important collection of books, donated by writer Stratis Tsirkas's widow to the state-funded National Book Center (EKEBI) in 1977, has been damaged virtually beyond repair due to neglect, the organization's librarian said.

IN BRIEF

Striking contract workers threaten to close off Acropolis : Culture Ministry contract workers have threatened to close off...

Sprinters Kenteris and Thanou get even more time to prepare : Disgraced sprinters Costas Kenteris and Katerina Thanou will appear before prosecutors...

Plane resumes journey for New York : A New York-bound Olympic Airlines passenger jet, which had to make an emergency landing...

Paralympic Flame : The idea to light the flame for every Paralympic Games at the Temple of Hephaestus...

Road tax hike : Road tax for cars and motorcycles will increase by 15 percent...

Cyprus property : Cyprus's chief prosecutor will appeal against a controversial ruling...

Chemical alarm : An Italian tanker carrying 7,350 metric tons of chemicals ran aground...

Deadly blaze : Firefighters found the charred remains of a woman on the ground floor...

Organic boom : The Agriculture Ministry has reported major interest...


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EDITORIAL

Safer roads Greece is mourning children killed in a road crash - again. Such accidents are an inexplicable sacrifice and, by all means, an avoidable one. The shortcomings dogging the country's road network are well known. It is indeed a tragedy that we are in the 21st century and Greece still lacks a modern national highway system in line with the most basic safety standards, such as clear lanes and safe median strips, things that are long considered self-evident in the more advanced European countries.

COMMENTARY

Cry that falls on deaf ears Anything more than the cry of «mercy» voiced by the bishop of Fthiotida after the crash yesterday would sound shallow and insubstantial - even if it were expressed in the most pointed language. This cry, an exclamation of desperate supplication, says all that can be said. And which will be said again. For everything has already been said, often and in raised tones, by politicians and ordinary people.

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