Man killed by train as OSE probe wraps up
A 65-year-old man was killed in northern Greece yesterday when he was hit by a train traveling between Athens and Thessaloniki, rounding off a bad month for the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE). The accident happened in the area of Adendro, near Thessaloniki. The unnamed victim was a worker who was cleaning weeds near the train tracks. Nobody on the train was injured. The news came as sources said that an investigation into an accident in central Greece earlier this month, when a passenger train plowed into the back of a freight train, concluded that the crash occurred because 17 extra carriages had been added to the freight engine. Investigators have found that the train was carrying some 400 tons more than it should have been, in what is suspected to be an illegal transportation ring involving OSE employees.
