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WORLD NEWS Friday 7 February 2020

People gather at a border crossing between Serbia and Hun-
gary in Kelebija, Serbia, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020.
Associated Press

Some 200 migrants

at Serbia-Hungary Firefighters inspect a derailed train carriage, near Lodi, northern Italy, Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020. Ital-

ian authorities say a high-speed passenger train has derailed in northern Italy, killing two railway
border seeking entry workers and injuring 27 people. Associated Press

Experts ponder human error in
By IVANA BZGANOVIC rope. Hungary has erected
Associated Press two rows of wire fences at
KELEBIJA, Serbia (AP) — the border to prevent their Italian high-speed train crash
About 200 hundred mi- entry.
grants, including children, "We ask European Union to By ANTONIO CALANI and the first train to pass through Cardona said another rail-
gathered Thursday at Ser- open the borders, please, LUCA BRUNO the area after the work road worker was seriously
bia's border with Hungary please open borders," said OSPEDALETTO LODIGIANO, was done and "the switch injured. Among the 27 pas-
to demand to be allowed Amr Abohatem from Ye- Italy (AP) — A high-speed was placed in a position it sengers hurt in the derail-
entry into the European men. passenger train derailed in shouldn't have been," he ing, one was seriously in-
Union country. "They should ask our gov- northern Italy before dawn said. jured, authorities said.
Braving freezing evening ernments why people Thursday, killing two rail- "We're looking into the hy- "The engine car kept go-
weather and biting winds, come here!" way workers and injuring 28 pothesis of human error ing, hundreds of meters, at
the migrants camped Most migrants in Serbia other people as its engine that could be linked to the high speed," Cardona told
at the Kelebija border spend months in the state broke off and careened maintenance work," as a reporters at the crash site
crossing, blocking traffic. camps and attempt to into a work vehicle on a possible cause for the acci- near the town of Osped-
Wrapped in blankets or cross the borders several adjacent track. Authorities dent, Chiaro said, stressing aletto Lodigiano.
sleeping bags, many mi- times. They often rely on are looking into human er- that no conclusions had Chiaro said the crash oc-
grants were lying or sitting people smugglers to help ror linked to track mainte- been reached yet. curred about 5:50 a.m.
on the ground, holding them cross to Hungary or nance work as a possible Sabotage or a terror attack (0450 GMT), several min-
their personal belongings another EU member state, cause. have been ruled out, the utes after a scheduled stop
close by. Croatia. The state-railway Freccia prosecutor said and investi- as the train traveled from
The children shouted "Open Hungary has recently re- Rossa train went off the rails gators have recovered the Milan south to Bologna.
borders!" while some of the ported a spike in attempt- on the heavily used Milan- train's black box recording. Police said the train had
migrant banners read "we ed illegal entry by migrants. Bologna line while travel- "The (engine of the) train about 30 passengers. Only
are refugees, not criminals" A Hungarian security guard ing at nearly 300 kph (180 rammed a series of ob- one passenger was in the
or "we are running from fired three warning shots mph), Civil Protection chief stacles'' before finally stop- first car, a business-class
war, not hunger." The bor- when several dozen mi- Angelo Borrelli told state ra- ping, Chiaro said, including car, that ended up on its
der crossing was closed to grants tried to enter Hun- dio. a nearby building used for side. The train passenger
traffic. gary late last month. Maintenance work had storing railway equipment cars further back remained
There are several thou- Most migrants come from been carried out on a near- and tools. The engine car upright.
sands migrants, who are countries such as Syria, by track switching area less ended its fatal trajectory One passenger, an uniden-
fleeing war and poverty in Iraq or Afghanistan. Hun- than two hours before the flipped around 180 de- tified man interviewed by
their countries, stuck in the dreds of thousands passed derailment, Prosecutor Do- grees. state TV, likened the mo-
Balkans while seeking to through the Balkans in 2015- menico Chiaro told report- State railways said the two ment of the crash to being
move to the more prosper- 16 when about one million ers at a news conference fatalities were train engi- on a roller-coaster for 20
ous nations in Western Eu- people entered Europe.q The train that derailed was neers. Prefect Marcello seconds. q