At least 32 people are dead and 85 others injured after two trains collided near the city of Larissa in Greece late on Tuesday night.

Officials said an intercity passenger train, travelling from Athens to the northern city of Thessaloniki, collided at high speed with a cargo train close to midnight.

Multiple train carriages derailed and at least three caught fire following the crash near Tempe, some 235 miles north of Athens.

The collision is understood to be the deadliest rail crash in Greece in decades.

"We heard a big bang, (it was) 10 nightmarish seconds," said Stergios Minenis, a 28-year-old passenger who jumped to safety from the wreckage.

"We were turning over in the wagon until we fell on our sides...then there was panic, cables (everywhere) fire, the fire was immediate, as we were turning over we were being burned, fire was right and left."

The fire brigade confirmed the blazes had been extinguished, adding "some passengers" had been pulled from the wreckage unconscious after the crash.

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