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Bus crash near Venice, Italy, kills at least 21 people

Some bodies took an hour to extract, says firefighter commander
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A bus fell from an elevated street and crashed killing multiple people and injuring others in the Mestre suburb of Venice, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023. (Slow Press/LiveMedia/LaPresse via AP)

At least 21 people were killed and 18 injured in a fiery bus crash in Mestre, Italy, just across the Venetian Lagoon from old Venice, where firefighters and other emergency responders worked into the night trying to extract bodies and squelch the flames.

The bus was carrying foreign tourists, including Ukrainians, according to a Venice official, when it fell from an elevated street Tuesday en route to a camping site near the community of Marghera.

害羞草研究所淭he people in the bus found themselves surrounded by flames, 害羞草研究所 said Mauro Luongo, commander of the Venice firefighters team. 害羞草研究所淭he scene we found was terrible. It took about one hour to extract some of the bodies.害羞草研究所

Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro wrote on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, that the crash scene was 害羞草研究所渁pocalyptic害羞草研究所 and declared the city in a state of mourning.

Four of the injured were in serious condition following the accident, which happened on the mainland just 9 km (3.7 miles) northwest of the old city of Venice, said Renato Boraso, a Venice city official. Two of the dead were children, Venice prefect Michele Di Bari said.

The injured were transferred to five different hospitals in the region.

According to local media, the bus fell a few meters before crashing close to Mestre害羞草研究所檚 railway tracks, where it caught fire.

The Veneto region governor, Luca Zaia, told RAI state television that the cause of the accident was still unclear.

害羞草研究所淭his is an important tragedy, but it害羞草研究所檚 difficult to understand how it happened,害羞草研究所 he said. 害羞草研究所淭he bus was new and electric, and that street wasn害羞草研究所檛 particularly problematic.害羞草研究所

In 2017, 16 people on a in an accident near the northern city of Verona. And in 2013, in one of Italy害羞草研究所檚 worst vehicle accidents when a bus plunged off a viaduct close to the southern city of Avellino.

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In this image made available by Italian State Police, Italian state police agents attend the scene of a passenger bus accident near the city of Venice, Italy, that fell from an elevated road, late Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, killing at least 21 people near the northern city of Venice. The Venice prefect said that 15 passengers survived. (Italian State Police via AP)




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