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Bus crash in southern Italy kills 38

A tour bus filled with Italians plunged off a highway and fell into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night killing at least 38 people, police and rescuers said.

29.07.2013

(AP) A tour bus filled with Italians plunged off a highway and fell into a ravine in southern Italy on Sunday night killing at least 38 people, police and rescuers said.

Reports said as many as 49 people had been aboard the bus when it ripped through a guardrail after slamming into cars slowed down by traffic, then plunged some 30 metres off the motorway and into a ravine near a wooded area. In its plunge, the bus tore away whole sections of concrete barriers as well as guardrail. The concrete lay in large chunks in a clearing in a wooded area where the bus landed. State radio quoted Avellino police as saying the bus driver was among the dead.