A video screened on Tuesday by State
broadcaster Rai's Tg1 news suggests the five maintenance workers
killed in last week's rail disaster at Brandizzo station near
Turin 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 down there, right?" can be heard in
a short video recorded on the mobile telephone of one of the
victims shortly before the disaster on the night of August 30,
according to Tg1.
Some of the workers can be seen at work in the video.
The two survivors of the accident, the foreman of the team of
workers employed by a contractor and the Italian rail company
RFI employee responsible for the worksite, have been put under
investigation.
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.
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