About 30 people were killed when a giant motorway bridge collapsed in heavy rain in the Italian city of Genoa in what the government called an “immense tragedy”. The collapse, which saw a vast stretch of the A10 freeway tumble on to railway lines in the northern port city, came as the bridge was undergoing maintenance work and as the Liguria region, where Genoa is situated, experienced torrential rainfall. / AFP PHOTO
ROME, Italy (AFP) — The number people of killed during the collapse of a bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa has risen to 38, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Wednesday.
“We’re currently at 38 confirmed deaths and some people missing,” Salvini, who is also co-deputy prime minister, told reporters on the sidelines of an event in the southern region of Calabria.
Salvini is due to arrive in Genoa, on Italy’s north-western coast, in the afternoon.
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