31.   One of the train engineers and a passenger were seriously injured, a police spokeswoman said.

32.   Polish train engineers, demanding pay raises and early retirement schemes, threatened to go on strike after breaking off negotiations with the government on Tuesday.

33.   State railroad officials opened talks with the train engineer unions in an attempt to stop the protest scheduled to begin at midday Monday and last indefinitely.

34.   Shofner, the train engineer and a passenger were killed when the two-carriage commuter train smashed into the truck and burst into flames.

35.   The ANSA news agency quoted state railway officials as saying most of the injured suffered cuts and bruises but that the conductor and two train engineers were seriously injured.

36.   The four train engineers on the trains were under investigation, RAI state TV reported.

37.   The Italian news agency ANSA reported that the two train engineers escaped unhurt.

38.   The right-wing Solidarity trade union, representing the second largest bloc of train engineers, has not joined the strike, and has called it politically motivated.

39.   The striking train engineers protested working conditions and a cost-saving contract signed by other unions.

40.   The train engineer and a train passenger also were killed, police spokesman Norbert Hirschmann said.