A high-speed passenger train derailed in northern Italy before dawn Thursday on the heavily used Milan-Bologna line, with the engine completely detaching and hurtling 100 yards before slamming into a train service car on an adjacent track. A carriage of a high-speed train is overturned after the train derailed in the countryside near the town of Lodi, northern Italy, on Thursday. Besides striking the isolated work car, the derailed engine skirted an unoccupied railway building in its runaway path, narrowly missing it. The train passenger cars further back remained upright. In other recent derailments near Milan, three people were killed and more than 100 injured when a regional train derailed on another line in January 2018.

Source: CBC News February 06, 2020 12:56 UTC