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

Italian state radio mentioned there have been a number of injured within the coincidence at the A14 autostrada close to Forli’, a the city within the Emilia-Romagna area in northeastern Italy. It mentioned the remainder of the ones aboard had been safely evacuated.

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

Italy’s Internal Ministry mentioned the bus had set out from Ukraine and used to be heading south to Pescara, an Adriatic port town, when it overturned.

The passengers had been taken to a close-by police barracks for preliminary help, and would later resume their adventure, the ministry mentioned.

Some 35,000 Ukrainians refugees who fled struggle of their hometown have entered Italy, maximum of them thru its northeastern border with Slovenia.

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

What brought about the bus to overturn used to be underneath investigation.

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