The circulation along the Cremona-Mantua railway line was interrupted from 15 to 18,30 due to a large disconnection under some sleepers. Main accused of the inconvenience the nutria, because the instability is located near an irrigation canal, the lower Pessa, where rodents proliferate and where their burrows are very numerous. The newspaper the Province of Cremona writes, after the mayor of Torre Picenardi, Mario Bazzani, was warned by a farmer. "Around 13,30 - Pezzaioli tells the Province - I saw the first strange thing. I have a cornfield near the railroad and when the train passed I noticed it was swaying a lot, but it passed without any problems.
After a while however I went to have a closer look and I noticed that all the gravel under the sleepers had been sucked under. Practically the sleepers no longer rested on anything. At that point I thought I'd warn the mayor who called the railways ». A freight train was about to leave from Torre in the direction of Cremona and was stopped. After 18,30 pm, traffic on the railway line - which had been replaced by buses - was regularly reactivated.