The official confirmed death toll from the Tempi train crash remains at 36 but there are fears that this number will rise after rescue crews spied two more people unconscious in the wreckage that they have not yet been able to reach, sources said.

According to fire brigade spokesperson Vasilis Vathrakogiannis, the work on the restaurant car of the passenger train, which ended up piled up on two other carriages due to the force of the crash, has been completed. He pointed out that the fire that broke out in the specific carriage, which reached temperatures as high as 1,300 C, made the identification of bodies that may be within it extremely difficult.

"Given the above facts and the findings at the site of the tragedy, the number of dead is expected to be higher," he said, adding that the number of injured taken to hospital has risen to 72, of which six are in ICUs.

Fire fighters were currently looking through the second carriage, using rescue tools to remove pieces of it, section by section, and will then move on to the third carriage, Vathrakogiannis said.

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