Firefighters: A dozen dead in train crash in southern Italy

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Last Updated : Jul 12 2016 | 5:02 PM IST
Two Italian commuter trains collided today in the southern region of Puglia, killing a dozen people, firefighters said.
Dozens of others were injured when the two trains, each with four cars, collided head-on near the town of Andria on a line with just a single track, according to news agency ANSA and Sky TG24.
A still photo of the crash showed cars crumpled together and forced off the tracks at sharp angles. News reports said rescue workers were pulling victims from the rubble, including a small child who was alive. Video images showed ambulances responding to the scene with other rescue workers.
"Some of the cars are completely crumpled and the rescuers are extracting people from the metal, many of them injured," Riccardo Zingaro, the chief of the local police in Andria, told ANSA at the scene.
National police and Carabinieri couldn't immediately give details about the extent of the crash, saying they were in the middle of responding.
Italy's prime minister, Matteo Renzi, said the train crash "is a moment of tears" and pledged not to stop until a cause was determined.
Renzi spoke in Milan but was returning to Rome to monitor the situation.
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First Published: Jul 12 2016 | 5:02 PM IST

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