Italian police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old man, possibly Romanian, found dead near the railway tracks

Italian police are investigating the death of a 21-year-old man whose initial checks indicate that he may be Romanian. His body was discovered near the railway tracks in Falconara Marittima, Ancona province, while further remains were found on Monday morning, November 9, near a train in the railway area behind the Tanari car park in Bologna. The victim had not been identified when the information was published on Tuesday, November 10.

At around 9:30 a.m., Trenitalia employees found the victim’s head lodged beneath the front section of a train. The rest of the body had been recovered separately, from the railway tracks in Falconara Marittima, a town located nearly 200 kilometers away.

Initial findings suggest that the young man may have been struck by a train, but investigators have not yet established the exact location of the impact or the circumstances of the death. Checks are focusing on the section between Falconara Marittima and Imola, and the incident is believed to have occurred on Sunday night into Monday or during the early hours of Monday. The Falconara Marittima area is preliminarily considered the possible site of the impact.

Railway Police, forensic investigators, Scientific Police officers and firefighters responded in Bologna. Investigators are trying to reconstruct the sequence of events and establish the connection between the two discoveries. So far, there is no confirmed information about the victim’s identity, why he was on the railway tracks, or whether the death was accidental or intentional.