Two railway workers were killed when a high-speed passenger train derailed in northern Italy and hit a building.
The incident on the busy Milan-Bologna line saw the engine completely detach from the train before it hit the railway building at the side of the tracks, while travelling at 180mph.
A total of 27 people were injured in the derailment, which involved a Freccia Rossa train with about 30 passengers on board.
Authorities said the train engineer and another train employee, apparently also an engineer, were killed in the crash, which occurred about 5.30am local time outside the town of Lodi.
Girolamo Fabiano, a railway police official, said: “The engine car derailed, detached completely and kept going. Then the second car derailed.”
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