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Two Dead After High-Speed Train Derails Near Milan, Italy
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0:57Now PlayingA high-speed passenger train derailed in northern Italy before dawn Thursday and its detached engine slammed into a work train car on an adjacent track, ripped away part of a building wall and flipped around.
Two train workers were killed and 28 people were injured, authorities said.
The state-railway Freccia Rossa train went off the rails on the heavily used Milan-Bologna line about 5:30 a.m. (0430 GMT) while traveling at a speed of nearly 300 kph (180 mph), the civil protection chief told state radio.
A railroad police official said work had been done during the night on the stretch of track where the derailment happened, adding it was unclear if that was a factor in the train going off the tracks.
Prosecutors and railroad experts are investigating.
Besides striking the isolated work car, the out-of-control engine car clipped an unoccupied railways building in its runaway path, ripping away part of an exterior wall of a railways maintenance building, AP photos indicated.
The engine car ended its fatal trajectory, flipped around 180 degrees.
Authorities said the crash occurred about 20 minutes after the train had left Milan heading south toward Bologna.
Police said it had about 30 passengers.
Only one passenger was in the first car, a business-class car, that ended up on its side, an a couple of passengers each were in the next few cars.
The train passenger cars further back remained upright.
Authorities said it was possible the engine car automatically decoupled from the cars behind it as part of a safety mechanism to prevent the rest of the train from following the engine car in case of derailments.
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