As many as 60 people were injured, 20 of them in serious condition, as two subway trains collided during morning rush hour Tuesday in Rome, Italian NASA news agency reported.

Ambulances, firefighters and rescue teams have rushed to the Piazza Vittorio underground station, where the collision took place, in downtown Rome.

According to local media reports, the tragedy took place as a second subway train at high speed crashed into the first one that is stopping at the Piazza Vittorio station.
 

(Xinhua News Agency October 17, 2006)