In head-on collision between two trains on a single track railway line at least twenty people on Tuesday morning around 11:30 am north of Bari in southern Italy killed. In addition, were injured more than fifty in collisions between Corato and Andria, many of them seriously said the Vice President of the Puglia Region, Antonio Nunziante, in the afternoon.
still looking for security forces and dogs to other victims. Why would also be expected with an even higher number of deaths: “The situation is dramatic, and yet we can increase the number of the dead is not exactly determine” Nunziante said. Located next to the accident site, a field hospital was set up. After the television images, the two trains, each with four cars were collided frontally. The images show the first two carriages of the trains completely crumpled and on either side of the track amidst olive trees. Especially students and commuters use the train the local private railway company.
A lifesaver said: “These are the worst pictures that I’ve ever seen.” As you know corpses torn in the remains of the train; Survivors who cried for help, while others cry in silence. He just did save a few year old and can fly aboard a helicopter to the nearest hospital. Meanwhile arrived at the destination stations a relatives to inquire about the fate of missing persons. In Andria citizens were encouraged to donate blood at the hospital
Renzi broke a visit to Milan from
For now, human error for the tragic accident is blamed. but it must also have failed a computerized security control, it said. One of the trains had left its home station too early. He could only may depart when entering the train in a station of Corato
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi broke off a visit to Milan and returned to Rome. “In this sad moment, we need to work on as many to rescue victims and injured, “he said and urged the full investigation of the tragedy:” We need clarity and the assumption of responsibility “to support the disaster site sent Renzi transport Minister Graziano Delrio to Puglia, the anmahnte close cooperation between all assistants to civil protection. , . In the evening also Renzi wanted to come
Massimo Mazzilli, the Mayor of Corato, held via Facebook firmly: “This is a disaster that is reminiscent of the crash of an airplane.” A leading member of the populist “movement Five Stars “Allessandro Di Battista, found on Facebook:” How the hell can you still die in 2016 in a frontal collision between two trains? How is that with so much technology still possible? “
It often disastrous train accidents
Presumptive is the heaviest train accident for several years. End of June 2009, 26 people were in the Tuscan seaside town of Viareggio died, as in addition to the passenger train freight wagon exploded with liquid.
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While the train continues to be considered as a safe means of transport, but it always comes back to disastrous accidents in rail transport. In July 2013 shall be 80 people died when serious rail accident in Spain since 1972 near the pilgrimage town of Santiago de Compostela killed, 144 were wounded. The high-speed scallops shortly before the train too fast in a curve and derailed. In March 2012, 16 people died in Poland when two trains collided with a total of 350 inmates. In the accident near Zawiercie, north of Krakow, about 50 people were injured
The accident in southern Italy evokes memories of the train accident in the Bavarian Bad Aibling awake. In February Twelve people died when on the also single track between Rosenheim and Holzkirchen two local trains frontal click into each other.
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