Greece's centre-right government on Friday survived a no-confidence vote over a deadly 2023 train crash, as protests flared demanding political accountability over Greece's worst rail disaster.

Police and protesters clash at demonstrationsin Athens over Greece's deadly 2023 train crash::The violence erupted after thousands of people peacefully rallied outside parliament, where lawmakers debated a censure motion submitted by opposition parties against the center-right government.

Two years after a rail disaster in central Greece that left 57 people dead, the opposition failed in its attempt to bring down the government with a no-confidence vote on Friday. The opposition had accused the Cabinet of conservative Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis of covering up the causes of the fiery crash in Tempi,

Protesters hurled petrol bombs and set fire to trash cans in Athens on Friday as hundreds of thousands of Greeks went on strike and took to the streets in nationwide demonstrations on the second anniversary of the country's deadliest train crash.

Clashes broke out in Greece's two largest cities late Friday, as protesters hurled gasoline bombs and flares outside parliament, during a censure motion debate against the government over its handling of a deadly rail disaster two years ago.