2 injured small plane crashes on train tracks

A small tourist plane crashed onto high-speed train tracks Saturday while attempting to land at the small Urbe civilian airport in Rome, injuring the two people on board, the news agency ANSA reported.

An unidentified witness told Sky TG24 that the plane crashed into one set of tracks, leaving clear parallel tracks where a high-speed train passed shortly after the crash. The witness said the pilot was able to free himself, while rescue workers removed the passenger.

Both were in serious condition, ANSA said.

The cause wasn’t immediately known.

The Italian State Railway said the crash didn’t damage the line and that traffic would be able to resume normally once the aircraft is removed. In the meantime, traffic was being diverted to other tracks, creating delays. weapons watchdog blaming its government for a sarin nerve gas attack that killed over 90 people last spring.

In a statement Saturday, it says the report was a result of U.S. instructions to exert more political pressure on Syria, describing it as a “forgery.”

“This report and the one that preceded it are falsifications of the truth,” said the statement. The attack in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun in April sparked outrage around the world and a U.S. strike days later on the Shayrat air base, from which Washington said the attack had been launched. Syria’s government has denied involvement. But the investigators’ new report says experts are “confident” Damascus was behind the strike.