Thousands of protesters have demonstrated across the country since Tuesday's collision between a passenger train and a freight train, with public anger mounting over government failure to manage the rail network.
But protests blaming government mismanagement continued on Friday in the capital Athens and several major cities across Greece, with more planned for the weekend. The country's public broadcaster ERT reported that the station master had been appointed to the post only 40 days earlier - and after just three months' training.Thousands gathered outside the Athens headquarters of operators Hellenic Train - which took over network operations in 2017 - to protest at decades of failure to improve rail network safety, despite close calls in past years.
At the rally in Syntagma Square, adjacent to parliament, officers fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, an AFP reporter said. Around 3 000 people turned out for the demonstration.