Two Dead, 30 Injured As Train Derails In Italy

ROME (AFP) - Two women died and around 30 were injured when a passenger train derailed in northern Italy.
Three of the injured were seriously hurt, including the driver of the train, which was carrying around 40 people in all when it derailed for unknown reasons near the town of Madonna dell'Olmo, the Ansa agency said Monday.
One of the dead women was the train's chief engineer.
The Italian railway company, FS, opened two investigations into the crash, which occurred on a service linking the northern city of Turin and Cuneo, in northwestern Italy.
Ansa said the derailment ripped down electrical power cables over a distance of 700 metres.
It was the first fatal train crash in Italy since March 20 this year, when two night trains collided on the main line linking Rome to Paris via Milan. One person died in that crash.