A tram derailed Friday and slammed right into a constructing in the center of Milan, killing one person and injuring greater than two-dozen others, officials and Italian media said.
The incident, along the central Vittorio Veneto avenue, got here because the Italian business capital is hosting its seasonal fashion shows and is within the interim between hosting the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games.
The No. 9 tram runs through the center of Italy’s financial capital. It was purported to have continued straight along Vittorio Veneto and was going at a high speed. But it surely suddenly swerved at a switch track that’s utilized by one other tram line and went off its usual course, in line with video of the crash broadcast by Sky TG24.
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The video shows the tram nearly flipping onto its side because it takes the curve before slamming to a stop.
The welfare assessor for Lombardy, Guido Bertolaso, said one person was killed and one in all the injured was in grave condition, LaPresse news agency said. Dozens of ambulances, fire trucks and police cars responded to the crash, with crews escorting passengers in thermal blankets away from the scene.
ATM, the Milan public transport company, said one person had been killed. In a press release carried by LaPresse it said it was cooperating with prosecutors “to exactly establish the cause and dynamic of the incident.”
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