Five people were killed and fourteen were injured in a car pile-up involving some 40 vehicles in northern Greece on Sunday morning, authorities said.
The tragic accident happened shortly after 10:30pm Greek time (7:30am GMT) on Egnatia motorway at the Kouloura junction near the northern Greek city of Veria.
Repair work had shut down Egnatia’s eastbound lanes and vehicles were being diverted 75 kilometers (46 miles) west of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city. A truck coming up to the diversion point did not slow down Sunday and struck a car, which caught fire and caromed into the cars in front.
Firefighters said the dead include two women, two men and a charred body pulled from the burning car.
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