{"id":449477,"date":"2026-02-28T01:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449477\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T01:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:52:11","slug":"tram-derailment-leaves-two-dead-and-dozens-injured-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/449477\/","title":{"rendered":"Tram derailment leaves two dead and dozens injured | World News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two people have been killed and 49 injured after a tram derailed in the centre of Milan, before slamming into a building.<\/p>\n

The Number 9 tram was supposed to have continued straight along the central Vittorio Veneto avenue, but it suddenly swerved at a switch track that is used by another tram line, according to a video of the crash broadcast by Sky TG24.<\/p>\n

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\n The derailed tram smashed into a building in Milan. Pic AP<\/p>\n

The video shows the tram nearly flipping onto its side as it takes the curve before crashing.<\/p>\n

Milan mayor Beppe Sala suggested human error was to blame, saying the driver had apparently failed to switch tracks to keep the tram going straight.<\/p>\n

He described the driver as an experienced employee who had only been on his shift for an hour.<\/p>\n

However, he said the driver had skipped a stop before the crash and would be questioned from the hospital where he was being treated for his injuries.<\/p>\n

Emergency services said two people had been killed. Mr Sala said one passenger had died on the tram and one on the street.<\/p>\n

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He said none of the other injured were in a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n

Dozens of ambulances, fire engines and police cars responded to the crash, with crews escorting passengers in thermal blankets away from the scene.<\/p>\n

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ATM, the Milan public transport company, said it was cooperating with prosecutors “to precisely establish the cause and dynamic of the incident”.<\/p>\n

The incident came as the city is hosting its seasonal fashion shows and is in the interim between hosting the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people have been killed and 49 injured after a tram derailed in the centre of Milan, before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-449477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}