Italian among seven victims of US rail crash

(ANSA) - Sassari, May 14 - An Italian was among the victims of Tuesday's rail crash outside Philadelphia, Italian consular sources in the United States said Thursday.
    Giuseppe Piras, 41, was one of seven people to lose their life when their Amtrak passenger train travelling between Washington, DC, and New York derailed.
    Piras, an olive oil and wine salesman from Ittiri near Sassari in the island region of Sardinia, was in the US on business.
    Fellow townspeople say he had been due to fly from Washington to New York but missed his flight and so took the train instead.
    Piras was among the founders of the Sardinia Oil cooperative.