8 Must Stand Trial in Italian Train Bombing
Eight men, including alleged Mafia paymaster Pippo Calo, were ordered to stand trial Saturday for a Christmas train bombing which killed 15 people and injured 230 in 1984, judicial officials said.
Calo, currently on trial in Palermo with about 450 suspected Mafiosi on other charges including 64 counts of murder, is accused with six other men of massacre and terrorism over the train bombing. An eighth defendant, West German Friedrich Schaudin, is charged with manufacturing the device.
The bomb went off on December 23, 1984, on a crowded Naples-to-Milan train in a tunnel between Florence and Bologna.
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