At least three people were killed and dozens injured Thursday when a train derailed and crashed near the Italian city of Milan, the Italian fire department said.
The train derailed at 7 a.m. (1 a.m. ET) in Pioltello on the northeastern outskirts of Milan as it was traveling from Cremona, southeast of Milan, to the Porta Garibaldi railway station in the city’s center.
![Rescuers help a woman out of the derailed train Thursday in Pioltello, Italy, outside Milan.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/180125094221-03-italy-train-derailment-0125.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill)
At least eight people remain in critical condition after the crash, the fire department said.
The train’s operator, Trenord, said in a tweet that a “technical problem” caused the accident.
“Our thoughts go out to the victims and the families of the victims; we express our closeness to the injured and all the people that were aboard the train,” said Trenord CEO Cinzia Farisè, who has visited the scene of the crash.
![All passengers who were trapped in the derailment have been accounted for, the Red Cross says.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/180125094005-01-italy-train-derailment-0125.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill)
In photos, three carriages are sprawled across the tracks, one of them tilted to the side, smashed into a pole.
They also show a team pulling a passenger from a tilted carriage and trying to get to more people with ladders propped up against the windows.
All passengers were now accounted for, the Red Cross in Italy said.
![Rescuers inside one of the train carriages try to help a passenger Thursday.](https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/180125094353-05-italy-train-derailment-0125.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill)
Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, the company responsible for the country’s rail infrastructure, said it was investigating the cause of the accident.
CNN’s Hilary McGann and Angela Dewan contributed to this report.