At least 16 people dead and 39 others injured as bus crashes in Italy

A bus returning from a school trip hit a pylon of a
bridge near Verona in northern Italy yesterday,
leaving at least 16 people dead and 39 others
injured.
The bus was reportedly returning to Budapest,
Hungary, from a school field trip in a mountain
resort in France when the incident happened at
the junction of Verona East on the road toward
Venice, ANSA said.
The bus was carrying 55 people, the majority
school boys ages 14 to 18. Upon immediate
impact, the bus went up in flames, some of the
occupants were thrown outside the burning bus
while others remained trapped inside.