Greek train crash: anger grows as government admits network problems

Admission of ‘chronic public sector ills’ comes as death toll rises to 46 with 10 still missing

The Greek government has said that rail projects in the country have been beset by “chronic public sector ills”, amid growing anger over how Tuesday night’s head-on crash between two trains could have happened.

In the first official public admission of the problems plaguing Greece’s railroad network, officials also conceded that efforts by the centre-right administration to overhaul the system had failed.