Passenger trains in Italy smash head-on in deadly collision

The death toll from a train collision in the southern heel of Italy on Tuesday rose to at least 20, a regional official said, adding that dozens had been injured in the accident. 

The previous toll was put at 11 killed.
The two trains, each with each with four cars, crashed head-on in the middle of an olive grove near the town of Andria on a line with just a single track, according to news agency ANSA and Sky TG24.
A still photo of the crash showed cars crumpled together and forced off the tracks at sharp angles. News reports said rescue workers were pulling victims from the rubble, including a small child who was alive. Video images showed ambulances responding to the scene with other rescue workers.

"Some of the cars are completely crumpled and the rescuers are extracting people from the metal, many of them injured," Riccardo Zingaro, the chief of the local police in Andria, told ANSA at the scene.
A spokesman for the Italian fire services said fire fighters were “working with dozens of rescue teams to open up the carriages”. Luca Cari, a fire service spokesman, said rescue teams had saved a child from the wreckage. "The rescue is complicated because this happened in the middle of the countryside," he explained.
There was no immediate reason given for the collision, which took place at around 11:30 am local time on a hot summer day.
Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said the train crash "is a moment of tears" and pledged not to stop until a cause was determined.
Renzi spoke in Milan but was returning to Rome to monitor the situation.