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Italian authorities say a speeding out-of-service train has slammed into a group of workers doing nighttime track maintenance, killing five of them ROME -- A speeding out-of-service train slammed into a group of workers doing nighttime track maintenance in northern Italy on Thursday, killing five of them, authorities said. The crash occurred shortly after midnight at a station in Brandizzo, a town in Italy’s Piedmont region. Piedmont Gov. Alberto Cirio provided the death toll and said the accident's cause was under investigation. Brandizzo Mayor Paolo Bodoni said there were indications that the crew of the train was unaware there were workers on the tracks , reported La Stampa, a newspaper in Piedmont's main city, Turin. State radio initially said authorities had estimated that the train was moving at about 160 kilometers per hour (100 mph). But a preliminary investigation by railway police later lowered the speed estimate to about 100 kilometers per hour (about 62 mph), th...

A cargo train has hit a passenger train outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, leaving at least 15 people dead and scores injured DHAKA, Bangladesh -- A cargo train hit a passenger train outside the Bangladeshi capital on Monday, leaving at least 15 people dead and scores more injured , fire officials said. Rescuers joined local residents in extracting passengers from the wreckage of the train cars, said fire official Mosharraf Hossain at Bhairab, in the central district of Kishoreganj, where the collision happened at 3:30 p.m. He said the bodies of at least 15 people had been recovered and the number of casualties could increase. “Our people are working there. It's a chaotic situation,” he told The Associated Press. The crash occurred when two rear coaches of the Dhaka-bound Egarosindur Godhuli Express passenger train were hit by a cargo train heading to Chattogram, Azizul Haque Rajon, a senior fire official, said from the scene by phone. He said it was unclear how many peop...

Official say six people have died and 40 others are injured after two passenger trains collided in southern India HYDERABAD, India -- Two passenger trains collided in southern India on Sunday, killing six people and inuring 40, officials said. The crash happened in Andhra Pradesh state’s Vizianagaram district when an incoming train slammed into a stationary train , leading to derailment of at least three rail cars, senior railway officer Saurab Prasad said. Multiple rescue teams and residents were extracting injured passengers from the wreckage. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy asked authorities to send as many ambulances as possible to the crash site and ordered other relief measures. Train crashes are common in India and are often blamed mostly on human error or outdated signaling equipment. In June, more than 280 people were killed in one of the country’s deadliest rail crashes in decades after two passenger trains rammed into each other in eastern India. More t...

Australian police are hunting for a man who allegedly took a platypus from its natural environment and onto a train where he showed it off to commuters. LONDON -- Police in Australia have urgently appealed to the public to help find a man who allegedly took a platypus from its natural environment and onto a train where he showed it off to fellow commuters . The incident occurred on Tuesday morning at approximately 11 a.m. local time when surveillance cameras caught a man and a friend boarding a train at Morayfiled Station in Queensland, Australia, with a platypus wrapped in a towel, according to Queensland Police. MORE: Feral cows to be gunned down by shooters in helicopters in US national forest Authorities say the man holding the platypus was “patting it and showing it to fellow commuters” while they made their way toward the town of Caboolture. It is believed the man came across the animal somewhere in the Moreton district of Queensland and that he stole it from its natural env...