Photo: Reuters/Alessandro GarofaloThe death toll from a high speed train crash in southern Italy rose to 27 on Wednesday after rescuers worked through the night to try to extract bodies from the tangled wreckage and continued their search in the morning. With dozens of people injured, some seriously, rescuers expected the death toll could rise higher. "Getting around by train in the southern regions of Puglia, Calabria, Campania, Basilicata and Sicily is an enterprise for adventurers," he wrote on his Facebook page. One of the two passenger trains collided in the middle of an olive grove is seen in the southern village of Corato, near Bari, Italy, July 12, 2016. Commentator Roberto Saviano, author of best-selling novel Gomorra about the Naples underworld, said Renzi has to do something about the country's "abandoned and neglected" railways.

Source: Thanhnien News July 13, 2016 09:45 UTC