Monday, April 12, 2010

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for landslide in Merano: 9 dead

At least nine dead and 28 wounded, seven seriously: it is the tragic rail accident occurred this morning in the budget Alto Adige. Involved train R108 of the regional transport company operated by the Autonomous Province Sad that derailed in the area of \u200b\u200bMerano, in the stretch of line between Castelbello and Laces, at a point where the tracks cross a narrow gorge. The origin of a landslide disaster that according to the first technical site investigations would be caused by the rupture of an irrigation system, a hypothesis that, also made by the Director of the railway line, Helmuth Moroder. Break, the plant would "'''heavily drenched the ground below, making it unstable to collapse. The dead were trapped in the car in the middle of the earth and mud. rescuers are still working with picks and shovels to dig and to enter , recovering those trapped. One of the two cars ended up balanced on the banks of the river Adige. Ten of the injured in the crash were taken to hospital Vinschgau Meran, which is a few tens of kilometers from the place of the accident. A twenty were injured, however, sorted out in the hospitals of Bolzano and Silandro. The youngest of the victims was 18.

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