One lifeless, a number of wounded as bus filled with Ukrainian refugees overturns in Italy

A bus carrying about 50 Ukrainian refugees overturned on a significant freeway in northern Italy on Sunday, killing one particular person and leaving a number of others injured.

Firefighters work on the scene of an accident the place a bus crashed whereas carrying Ukrainian residents in Forli, Italy (Reuters picture)

A bus carrying about 50 Ukrainian refugees overturned on a significant freeway in northern Italy at daybreak on Sunday, killing one particular person, Italian firefighters stated.

Italian state radio stated there have been a number of injured within the accident on the A14 autostrada close to Forli’, a city within the Emilia-Romagna area in northeastern Italy. It stated the remainder of these aboard have been safely evacuated.

The bus landed on its facet on a grassy slope simply past a freeway guardrail and close to a farm area. Firefighters used two cranes in an operation to set the bus upright and take away it.

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Italy’s Interior Ministry stated the bus had set out from Ukraine and was heading south to Pescara, an Adriatic port metropolis, when it overturned.

The passengers have been taken to a close-by police barracks for preliminary help, and would later resume their journey, the ministry stated.

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Some 35,000 Ukrainians refugees who fled warfare of their homeland have entered Italy, most of them by way of its northeastern border with Slovenia.

Forli’ is within the area of Emilia-Romagna, which borders the Adriatic Sea.

What prompted the bus to overturn was below investigation.

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