At least 20 people died on Tuesday after a city bus carrying tourists to a campground crashed off an overpass near Venice in northern Italy and caught fire, the city's Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said.
The bus veered off the road and fell close to railway lines in the district of Mestre, which is connected to Venice by a bridge. The cause of the accident was still unclear.
Sky Italia television reported that 18 bodies had so far been dragged from the wreckage after the vehicle fell 15 metres onto electricity lines and caught fire at around 7:45 p.m. local time ."There are at least 20 dead, but some people are still trapped in the wreckage," he later told Italian state television channel Rai News24.
Venice's prefecture, a branch of the interior ministry, was quoted by Italian news agency ANSA as saying that there were 21 deaths, 12 injured and four or five still unaccounted for.Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed her condolences, saying in a statement that her government's thoughts were with "the victims, their families and their friends."
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