VENICE – Firefighters worked until dawn Wednesday to remove the wreckage of a bus that crashed in a borough of Venice, Italy, across the lagoon from its historic center, killing 21 people and injuring at least 15, mostly foreign tourists returning to a nearby camping site.
MESTRE, ITALY – OCTOBER 04: A view of the scene after bus crash near Venice, on October 04, 2023 in Mestre, Italy. At least 21 people died and 12 people were injured Tuesday evening after a bus fell from an overpass near Venice, according to local police. The bus – which was new and electric – was carrying foreign tourists when it fell from an elevated street on Tuesday evening, catching fire.
“When we went in, we saw the driver right away. He was dead. I carried a woman out on my shoulders, then a man,” Erheneden told the Venice daily il Gazzettino.