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20 die in head-on train crash
ROME: At least 20 people were killed on 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". Coffins were taken to the site near the city of Bari to carry away the first of the dead as 200 rescue workers sifted through the wreckage in temperatures reaching 40 degrees Celsius. "I saw dead people, others who were begging for help, people crying. The worst scene of my life," one policeman told journalists. Vito Montanaro, director general of the Bari health authority, said 20 people had died and 35 were injured, 18 of them critically. 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. "It’s an apocalyptic scene, it was hard **t to vomit on first sight," said local journalist Lucia Olivieri who works for Andria Live.it, adding that rescue workers feared people may still be trapped. "There were bodies parts, blood, bits of people," one elderly lady told local television Telesveva. "I walked barefoot through the wreckage. I dug under it and managed to pull my husband out," she said. The trains were operated by private railway company Ferrotramviaria -- just one of the 30 or so private companies which run on small lines criss-crossing Italy’s network in areas **t covered by national operator Trenitalia. أكثر... 
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