Tempi

The Ministry of Culture’s Central Council of Modern Monuments unanimously approved the request for the use of the Kallimarmaro Stadium for a memorial concert on October 11. However, 26 families of the Tempi train disaster victims oppose the €15 ticket, arguing it undermines the event’s symbolic meaning.

Vasilis Samaras, the stationmaster of Larissa who was held responsible for the tragic train accident in Tempi, has been released under specific conditions. Although his 18-month pre-trial detention was set to expire on September 1, he has been granted release with the conditions of a travel ban and house arrest.

The train service between Larissa and Rapsani in central Greece is due to resume on Monday, the railroad's manager has said. 

Hellenic Train said that damage caused on that stretch of the rail network by a devastating storm in September has been repaired, allowing the connection between Thessaly's regional capital and wine country to go back into operation. 

The residents of 35 villages in central Greece were told to be ready to evacuate on Saturday, as water continued to flood the vast Thessaly Plain where a three-day thunderstorm brought unprecedented amounts of water to the region. 

An executive of Greece' rail network managing company OSE was beaten outside a court in the city of Larissa, in central Greece, on Tuesday after his testimony before an investigative magistrate on the train tragedy in Tempi  that killed 57 people. 

Thousands of Greek workers walked off the job on Thursday and rallied in central Athens to protest failures of safety standards they claim helped cause the country's deadliest train crash, which killed 57 people on Feb. 28.

Students and schoolchildren in various parts of the country have taken to the streets to express their anger and grief at Tuesday's railway disaster in Tempi. in which at least 57 people, most of them students, lost their lives.

Greek farmers are still blocking major roads throughout the country, while today they are expected to decide on their next move.

According to information, they probably escalate their protest and continue blocking the roads, while at the same time they will prepare their arguments and proposals for the social security system and tax system.