Italian bus crash kills 38; second European transport disaster in five days
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - Thirty-eight people were killed and 10 injured when a bus plunged off a viaduct in southern Italy in one of the country's worst road accidents.
Initial reports suggested that the coach was travelling at speed and had hit four or five cars before crashing over the roadside barriers on a stretch of road near Monteforte Irpino, east of Naples, on Sunday night.
Many children were among the 50 people on board.
"It was an immense tragedy where we first had to rescue the injured people who were trapped inside the coach and then successively have had to work to pull out the bodies," said Alessio Barbarulo, head of the local fire brigade division that coordinated the rescue effort.
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indeed treacherous, but we entrusted ourselves to the very skillful bus drivers, with little worry. You can't imagine the narrow squeezes and hair-raising switchbacks they safely navigate many times each day. The problems they do encounter are mostly from tourists who think they can drive those unfamiliar, very difficult roads in rental cars ...
My sympathies to the many families touched by this latest tragedy. Absolutely heartbreaking.
(This is not the bus line or the actual roadway)
