2023-10-03 21:59:36
The crash caused “at least 20 deaths, including two children,” the spokesman said.
Firefighters said the bus caught fire after careering off the Rizzardi flyover linking the Mestre and Marghera districts of the northern Italian city.
Italy’s Corriere della Sera newspaper reported 21 fatalties, with 15 people injured and four or five missing, and that the passengers on board included a group of Ukrainians.
Rescuers at the site of the bus crash in Mestre on Tuesday night. (Photo by Marco SABADIN / AFP)
“A tragedy has struck our community this evening”, mayor Luigi Brugnaro wrote on Facebook, describing the site of the crash as “an apocalyptic scene”.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her “profound condolences”.
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“I am in contact with mayor Luigi Brugnaro and (Transport) Matteo Salvini in order to follow the news of this tragedy,” she said in a statement.
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