Spaniard found critically injured in Milan risks paralysis

Milan (Italy) May 22 (IANS/AKI) A 27-year-old Spaniard found lying beside rail tracks at a Milan station with a deep head wound after a night out with friends risks becoming a paraplegic police said on Monday.

The Spaniard was found at Milan s Porta Garibaldi station on April 30 after attending a stag party with around 20 friends at the northern Italian city s Alcatraz nightclub police said.

Spanish and Italian investigators are trying to establish if the man was injured during a fight or if he was hit by a train at the station.

The Spaniard was spotted sprawled between the tracks by the driver of an early morning train who stopped the vehicle and came to the man s help with a colleague.

His body was covered in cuts and bruises and he had lost a lot of blood from a deep gash to the back of his neck according to the train driver and paramedics called to the scene.

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