An emergency personnel works after a high speed train travelling from Milan to Bologna derailed killing at least two people near Lodi, Italy February 6, 2020. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
MILAN (Reuters) - A high-speed train derailed in northern Italy in the early hours of Thursday, killing its two drivers, injuring scores of people and disrupting traffic on the busy line between Milan and Bologna.
The train skipped the tracks while travelling at an estimated 280 kph (175 mph), with the front engine jumping onto an adjacent track and smashing into idle freight wagons before coming to a stop several hundred metres (yards) distant.
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