Five railway workers killed by train at Italian station

Five railway workers killed by train at Italian station
Firefighters inspect the site where five railway workers were killed at a station in Brandizzo, near Turin (LaPresse via AP)

A speeding work train slammed into a group of workers doing overnight track maintenance in northern Italy, killing five of them, authorities said.

The crash occurred shortly after midnight at the station in Brandizzo, a town in Italy’s Piedmont region.

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