Maurizio Gentile, the CEO of
Italian railway group RFI, is among 12 to have been added to the
list of people put under investigation in relation to a deadly
train derailment near the northern city of Lodi on February 6,
sources said.
The two drivers of the high-speed train were killed in the
accident, which is thought to have been caused by a problem with
a set of points, while 31 were injured.
The total number of people probed in relation to the disaster
is now up to 18, after five RFI maintenance workers and the
managing director of French industrial group Alstom's Italian
rail engineering unit Alstom Ferroviaria, the company that
supplied the points, were put under investigation soon after it
happened.
The two companies, RFI and Alstom Ferroviaria, are also under
investigation.
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