Two drivers killed in migrant bus crash in Italy


  • World
  • Friday, 15 Sep 2023

Members of emergency services work at a site where a bus carrying migrants crashed into a lorry in Fiano Romano, Italy September 15, 2023. Polizia di Stato/Handout via REUTERS

ROME (Reuters) - A bus carrying migrants who originally landed on Italy's tiny southernmost island of Lampedusa collided with a truck on a motorway just outside Rome on Friday, killing two drivers, Italian authorities said.

The coach was taking around 50 migrants from Sicily in the south to Piedmont in northern Italy when the accident happened. A number of the migrants were injured and taken to hospital for treatment.

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