Antonio Vallillo died on Thursday morning after being taken to the Rome Polyclinic for surgery, a Foreign Office spokesman confirmed.

He was injured when two trains collided at a station 80 miles south of Rome.

Among 80 casualties were Mr Vallillo's eight-year-old daughter Gabriella and wife Lidia thought to be in separate hospitals in Cassino and Rome.

Mr Vallillo, an ice cream vendor in Luton, is the first reported death from the crash, the Foreign Office spokesman said.

"Mr Vallillo died in the early hours of this morning of the injuries sustained in the crash," the spokesman said.

"Embassy officials the hospitals in Cassino and Rome and we are in touch with families in the UK and in Italy."