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In Brandizzo video Kevin 'did justice for himself' - brother

Video filmed by victim before rail disaster 'speaks for itself'

Redazione Ansa

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 6 - A video recorded by one of the victims shortly before the rail disaster on the night of August 30 that left five track maintenance workers dead "speaks for itself", his brother said on Wednesday.
    "I think the video speaks for itself. My brother did justice for himself," said Antonino Laganà, whose brother Kevin was the youngest of the five men hit and killed by a train while replacing tracks at Brandizzo station near Turin.
    The video, recorded by Kevin on his mobile phone, suggests the maintenance workers may have known that they did not have the all-clear to start work and that it was possible a train would arrive on the track.
    "Lads, if I say 'train,' go that way, ok?" a man can be heard saying.
    The two survivors, the foreman of the team of workers employed by a contractor and the Italian rail company RFI employee responsible for the worksite, have been placed under investigation in relation to the incident, which has returned the issue of workplace safety to the centre of public debate.
    Investigators are trying to work out why work was allowed to begin before there was confirmation that traffic on the line had been halted.
    Sources say investigators believe work started even though the RFI employee was denied the all-clear for it to begin in three phone calls with network officials.
    The investigators are also trying to work out whether the fact the men were at work without the all-clear to start was a one-off thing, or whether it is something that happens frequently in such operations. (ANSA).
   

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