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Two women sit on a bench next to the burnt door of a collapsed house in Viareggio Tuesday after a freight train exploded just outside the station of this coastal town in northern Italy. A train derailed and set off an explosion and fire in the middle of a small Italian town, killing at least 12 people, many as they slept in their homes, and injuring many others, officials said Tuesday.

Marco Vasini, Associated Press