At least 11 people died and dozens were injured when two passenger trains collided head-on in southern Italy on Tuesday, a spokesman for the fire service said, according to Reuters. The crash happened on a single stretch of track in countryside between the towns of Corato and Andria. Both trains were made up of four carriages. An aerial image showed carriages smashed and crumpled by the force of the impact, with debris flung out amongst olive trees which flanked both sides of the track. "We are working with dozens of rescue teams to open up the carriages," said Luca Cari, a fire service spokesman, adding they had saved a young boy from the wreckage. "The rescue is complicated because this happened in the middle of the countryside," he said. There was no immediate reason given for the collision, which took place at around 11.30 am (0930 GMT) on a hot summer's day in the region of Puglia.
