(Source: The Local, January 31, 2017)
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Mauro Moretti, the former head of Italian railways, was on January 31 among a string of executives convicted over a 2009 freight train disaster that killed 29 people. The tragedy in the Tuscan port of Viareggio was Italy’s deadliest rail accident in over 30 years and remains the country’s worst of the 21st Century. The executives were held responsible for poor infrastructure and risk-avoidance systems deemed to have contributed to a freight train carrying liquid petroleum gas derailing and exploding.
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