<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>Two trains have collided in northern Greece with the loss of at least 26 lives and dozens of people injured, emergency services say.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rescuers have been working to save passengers and extinguish a fire caused by the crash near the city of Larissa on Tuesday evening.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The incident involved a passenger train and a freight train.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Footage published on local news sites shows fierce flames and thick plumes of smoke rising from derailed carriages.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The fire brigade said 17 vehicles were at the scene trying to put out the flames.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is not yet known what caused the collision.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The passenger train was travelling between Thessaloniki and Larissa.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"There was panic in the carriage, people were screaming," an unnamed young man evacuated from the scene was quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It was like an earthquake," another passenger named Angelos Tsiamouras told local media.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It was a very powerful collision," the regional governor of the Thessaly region, Kostas Agorastos, told state-run television in quotes cited by AP news agency. "This is a terrible night... It's hard to describe the scene." BBC</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>