Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Puglia, collision between trains: at least 11 dead Photos | Video Wagons crumbled, baby alive extracted from Live bands – BBC



Midi , July 12, 2016 – 11:53

train Crash on Corato Andria-a little after 11. apparently there would be at least eleven people dead and many injured. But the toll could rise. The sources said the rescuers. The line, which has been interrupted, is managed by Ferrotramviaria. On-site they intervened several teams of firefighters from Bari and Barletta as well as the railway police officers who carried out the first surveys to trace the causes of the accident. Rescuers, that the place they set up a field hospital, are working to secure the surviving passengers. They have extracted from the wreckage of one of the trains involved in the accident a small child: the child was still alive and was taken away by helicopter.



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Apulia, death on the tracks

 

The testimony on the spot

Still uncertain the final budget of the victims. “There was – says Riccardo Zingaro, local police commander of Andria – a head-on collision on a single-track, some coaches are completely crumpled and rescuers are pulling people from the wreckage, many are also injured.

The premier Renzi: ensure accountability

Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has interrupted the visit to the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan. He returned to Rome to the Apulian accident developments. There is an “absolute requirement to understand the perpetrators and make full clarity – said Renzi – we will not stop until we clarify what happened.”

the crowded line of commuters

the affected section is single-track and work is underway to double. Passing 200 trains daily on the line and the railway artery linking the north of Bari in Bari. Thousands of commuters who travel to the capital to work. On the spot he traveled the prosecutor of Trani attorney, Francesco Giannella, which opened an investigation. Even the governor of Puglia, Michele Emiliano, is headed for the crash site abandoning a meeting in Bari at the Court of Auditors.

July 12, 2016 | 11:53

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