Passenger attacks train manager near Bologna

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 19 - A 50-year-old train manager was attacked by a young passenger on a regional train connecting Porretta to Pianoro near Bologna, local newspaper Resto del Carlino reported on Tuesday.
    The young boy on Monday afternoon punched the railway worker and knocked out two of his front teeth before fleeing, the report said.
    The Trenitalia-Tper train was cancelled along with the two subsequent trains and the railway worker was taken to the local Hospital of Porretta.
    Carabinieri police probing the latest in a series of attacks on railway workers are searching for the attacker, who is believed to be a minor.
    An national strike of railway workers was held across Italy earlier this month after a ticket inspector working on a regional train was stabbed near the Liguria station of Rivarolo.
    The strike was organized to demand more security on the job after "a long series of attacks" over the past few months against railway personnel by labour unions Filt Cgil, Fit Cisl, Uiltrasporti, Ugl Ferrovieri, Fast Confsal and Orsa Trasporti.
    (ANSA).