04/13/10

Permalink Landslide derails train in Italy, 9 dead

At least nine people were killed and 28 injured in northern Italy when a landslide derailed a local train carrying commuters and students near the Alpine city of Bolzano. Scores of rescue workers dug bodies by hand from the wreckage after tonnes of rock and mud swept the front carriage of the train into a steep gorge between the towns of Castelbello and Laces at around 0700 GMT. Only a line of trees prevented the train from being swept into the River Adige below. The injured were ferried to local hospitals by helicopter. "There are nine confirmed victims, while 28 people have been injured, seven of them seriously," said Luis Durnwalder, governor of the German-speaking Bolzano-Bozen province, adding that the death toll could rise. Investigators are studying a data recorder recovered from the wreckage. The line was one of the most modern in the wealthy Trentino-Alto Adige region, and was inaugurated in 2005.

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