Greece train tragedy father on hunger strike

Athens: The father of a young man killed in Greece s worst rail tragedy in 2023 has gone on hunger strike to protest at the authorities refusal to co...

Athens: The father of a young man killed in Greece's worst rail tragedy in 2023 has gone on hunger strike to protest at the authorities' refusal to conduct a full forensic examination.

Panos Ruci, whose 22-year-old son Denis died in crash, has been protesting in front of parliament and refusing food since September 15 over prosecutors' refusal to allow an exhumation of his son's body.

"For two and a half years I have been unable to obtain justice... I demand (authorisation) for the exhumation," Ruci told AFP on Sunday.

"Otherwise we'll be here day and night," he said.

Fifty-seven people, most of them young students, were killed in February 2023 when a passenger train and a freight train collided near Tempe, central Greece, having been allowed to run on the same track for 12 minutes.