Former rail executives jailed over 2009 derailment which led to 32 deaths

Two former railway executives have been convicted over the 2009 derailment of a freight train loaded with gas which set off an explosion that collapsed five buildings and killed 32 people in the Italian town of Viareggio.

A judge in the Tuscan town of Lucca on Tuesday convicted former Italian State Railways chief executive officer Mauro Moretti and Michele Mario Elia, former chairman of railway subsidiary RFI.