The state-railway Freccia Rossa train went off the rails in the Italian countryside about 5:30 a.m. while travelling at nearly 300 kph, Civil Protection chief Angelo Borrelli said
Police inspect an overturned carriage of a high-speed train after the train derailed in the countryside near the town of Lodi, in northern Italy, on Feb. 6, 2020.A high-speed passenger train derailed in northern Italy before dawn Thursday on the heavily used Milan-Bologna line, with the engine completely detaching and hurtling 100 yards before slamming into a train service car on an adjacent track. Two train workers were killed and 28 people were injured, authorities said.
Girolamo Fabiano, a railroad police official, said work had been done on that stretch of track during the night. But he said it was unclear if that was a factor in the crash, whose cause was under investigation by prosecutors and railroad experts.State railways said the two fatalities were train engineers. Prefect Marcello Cardona said another railroad worker, part of the cleaning staff, was seriously injured.
Besides striking the isolated work car, the derailed engine skirted an unoccupied railways building in its runaway path, narrowly missing it. “The engine car derailed, detached completely and kept going,” Girolamo Fabiano, a railroad police official told state radio. ”Then the second car derailed.“ Cardona said it was fortunate that, due to the hour, the train wasn’t crowded. Police said it had about 30 passengers. Only one passenger was in the first car, a business-class car, that ended up on its side, and a couple of passengers each were in the next few cars. The train passenger cars further back remained upright.
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