Friday, April 11, 2008

Dutch student posts Rome crash video

John Hooper is the Guardian's Rome correspondent

A remarkable video of the panic-sticken minutes following the Rome metro crash has been posted to the web by a Dutch student on holiday here. It shows a thin white mist filling the stationbefore the fleeing passengers are plunged into the dark.

An Italian woman was killed and more than 200 people were injured in the collision, which took place towards the end of the morning rush hour. One of the two underground trains was standing at the Piazza Vittorio station in the centre of the capital when the other ran into the back ot it.

guardian.co.uk / Europe / Internet

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