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Greek police fire tear gas at firebomb-throwing protesters outside parliament as tens of thousands demonstrated in Athens over the country's worst rail tragedy and called on the prime minister to quit. Fity-seven people were killed, and 14 others remain in hospital after a freight train crashed head-on with a passenger train, carrying mostly students, on February 28. IMAGES

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