Rome, December 11 (QNA) - At least 17 people were injured after two trains crashed in Faenza, northern Italy.
The fire service stated that a high-speed train collided with a regional train on the railway which links Bologna and Rimini in the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy, adding that at least 17 people were slightly injured.
Firefighters were still at the scene of the accident, working to secure the railway. The cause of the collision was not immediately clear, the Italian news agency (ANSA) reported.
The accident happened 3 months after 5 railway workers were killed when they were hit by a train during night maintenance work on the Milan-Torino line. A previous accident in 2020 also killed 2 railway workers and injured 31 passengers when a train derailed near a train station south of Milan.
In January 2018, 3 people were killed and about 100 others were injured when a crowded train derailed near Milan, an accident blamed on poor railway maintenance. (QNA)