A tram derailed and smashed into a building in Milan on Friday, killing two people and injuring at least 38 others, police told AFP.One of the dead was hit by the tram as it derailed and the second victim was a passenger, the city’s mayor Giuseppe Sala told reporters at the scene.
Firemen wrapped survivors in emergency blankets while ambulances took the more seriously injured to hospital.The accident came only days after Milan finished hosting the 2026 Winter Olympics. It is preparing to host the Paralympics and is currently staging Milan Fashion Week.”There was a man who was trapped under the tram, his arm was trapped,” witness Valerio Gaglione told AFP.
There were lots of people injured inside the tram, I saw an old man completely covered in blood,” he said.Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed “deepest condolences” over the deaths.Transport Minister Matteo Salvini, who is from Milan, said he was “grieved” by the accident and called for answers.
Prosecutor Marcello Viola, the lead investigator, said the impact between the tram and the building was “devastating”.One victim was an Italian in his 60s, Sala said.The other was a Senegalese man who died on the way to hospital, media reported.An initial investigation suggested the driver had not activated a track switch. He had also run through the last stop on the line before the accident, Sala said.
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