10 dead, dozens injured as trains collide head-on near Bari, Italy – report

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At least ten people have been killed and dozens injured in a head-on collision between two trains in the south of Italy, local media report. Emergency services are already at the scene trying to treat the injured.

“There are many dead,” said the head of the Andria police department Riccardo Zingaro. “There was a head-on collision on a single-track and some of the carriages are completely crumpled. The rescuers are pulling people from the wreckage,” he added, as cited by La Repubblica.

The incident took place near the city of Bari on Italy’s Adriatic coast, between the rural towns of Andria and Corato. The two regional trains are normally well-used, but no official information has been released so far as to the exact number of people who have been injured.

The trains came head to head on an area of single track. The line, which runs northwest of Bari in the ‘boot of Italy’ is busy, with over 200 trains using the line every day. Work had been taking place to add an extra line to ensure that trains would not possibly meet in the middle of the track.

There are still a number of passengers trapped in the train carriages, with rescue workers working frantically to reach the injured. A child was pulled from the wreckage and was taken to hospital by air ambulance, Il Messagero reports.

 

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