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20 dead in Italy head-on train crash
ROME: At least 20 people were killed Tuesday in a head-on collision between two passenger trains in the southern Italian region of Puglia, in one of the country´s worst rail accidents in recent years.
Emergency services raced to extract people from the wreckage of smashed carriages thrown across a single track into olive groves near the town of Andria, in what one witness described as an "apocalyptic scene". Vito Montanaro, director general of the Bari heath authority, said 20 people had died and 35 were injured, 18 of them critically. "It was an e**rmous accident, a very violent crash," said Transport Minister Grazia** Delrio, who arrived on at the scene along with two ministry inspectors to aid the investigation. The collision happened on a bend in the track in open countryside and flung the front carriages of both trains into olive groves bordering the line, slinging bits of metal from the wreckage. Riccardo Zingaro, head of traffic police in Andria, said the yellow and blue carriages of the commuter trains were "utterly crumpled". Local hospitals issued a request on social networks for blood do**rs to come forward to help the injured. Paramedics set up an impromptu medical centre among the olive trees, with three helicopters airlifting out the most seriously hurt victims, including one young boy. Many of the passengers on one of the trains had been students heading to lessons at the University of Bari and travellers on their way to Bari international airport. Relatives had arrived at the scene looking for news of their loved ones. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi interrupted a speech in Milan to say the country would "**t stop until we k**w what happened". "This is a moment for tears in which we need to work to recover the victims and wounded," he added. Renzi said he was returning immediately to Rome following the collision. أكثر... 
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