Rescue Workers Find 14th Victim Of Deadly Train Collision In Northern Italy
Fire department officials in Bologna said several train cars were so badly crushed that searchers still were unable to thoroughly inspect them more than 24 hours after the collision on the track between Bologna and Verona.
The body discovered Saturday was that of an unidentified man, the fire department said. Rescue workers did not rule out finding others and expected to continue the search for at least another day.
A passenger train collided with a freight train Friday in a field in Bolognina di Crevalcore, north of Bologna. The force of the crash left one carriage standing on end nearly perpendicular to the tracks.
Dozens of people were injured, most of them slightly. Five people remained hospitalized Saturday, the ANSA news agency said.
Investigators were studying the possibility that one train failed to stop at a red light and wait for the other train to pass on a second track, news reports said. A prosecutor in Bologna heading the investigation declined to comment on the report.
"We have not been able to verify any hypotheses with the information we have had from station records,'' prosecutor Enrico Cieri told TG1 television news. The Civil Defense department said about 100 people were on board the passenger train, which was traveling south from Verona to Bologna. The freighter, which carried long metal rods, was headed north from Rome to San Zeno Falzano.
Though most train accidents in Italy are minor, the country has had deadly crashes. The most recent was in July 2002, when a train from Palermo to Messina derailed in northeastern Sicily, killing at least eight people.
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