Story highlights
- Collision happened late Tuesday morning in southeastern Italian countryside
- Two trains collided head-on about 15 kilometers south of Adriatic Sea
(CNN)Two
passenger trains collided head-on in a rural area of southeastern Italy
late Tuesday morning, killing at least 23 people, a medical official
said, and prompting authorities to ask for blood donations for an
unspecified number of injured.
23 killed in Italy train collision
Trains collide in southern Italy 02:34
Story highlights
- Collision happened late Tuesday morning in southeastern Italian countryside
- Two trains collided head-on about 15 kilometers south of Adriatic Sea
(CNN)Two
passenger trains collided head-on in a rural area of southeastern Italy
late Tuesday morning, killing at least 23 people, a medical official
said, and prompting authorities to ask for blood donations for an
unspecified number of injured.
Pictures
from the scene in the Puglia region showed both trains were on the same
track about 15 kilometers south of the Adriatic Sea, apparently headed
toward each other.
Italian firefighters inspect the wreckage of two trains after a head-on collision in the southern region of Puglia on Tuesday.
Images
distributed by firefighters there showed the smashed remains of train
cars and a large area of scattered, twisted metal at the impact site
about 7 kilometers east of the city of Andria.
One
train was headed from Andria to Corato, while the other was headed in
the opposite direction, Italian news agency ANSA reported.
At
least 23 people were killed, and the number is expected to rise, a
medical official at the scene told CNN on condition of anonymity. The
official said 22 bodies had been pulled from the wreckage, and one
person died in a hospital.
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