- Title: Victims' relatives, survivors of Italy bus crash arrive at Verona hotel
- Date: 21st January 2017
- Summary: VERONA, ITALY (JANUARY 21, 2017) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF HOTEL WHERE SURVIVORS OF BUS CRASH ARE STAYING PEOPLE GOING IN AND OUT OF HOTEL REVOLVING DOOR VARIOUS OF HUNGARIAN RELATIVES OF VICTIMS STANDING OUTSIDE HOTEL CAR CARRYING HUNGARIAN SURVIVOR ARRIVING CAR WITH HUNGARIAN LICENSE PLATE TEENAGER WITH BROKEN ARM AND A LIMP ENTERING HOTEL, WOMAN SHAKING HAND OF MAN WHO WAS DRIVING THE BOY EMERGENCY WORKERS COMING OUT OF AMBULANCE EMERGENCY WORKERS ENTERING HOTEL HUNGARIAN AMBASSADOR TO ITALY JANOS BALLA ARRIVING WITH EMBASSY STAFF AT HOTEL PEOPLE ARRIVING AT POLICE STATION HUNGARIAN CONSUL IN ITALY JUDIT TIMAFFY LEAVING POLICE STATION POLICE CARS AT POLICE STATION PARKING LOT POLICE TAKING HIS CAP OUT OF THE BOOT TRUCK DRIVING PAST BUS WRECK WHICH IS UNDER A WHITE COVER VARIOUS OF COVERED WRECKAGE BEHIND POLICE TAPE VARIOUS OF ROAD BLOCKED AT SITE OF BUS CRASH
- Embargoed: 4th February 2017 16:43
- Keywords: bus accident Italy Hungary students crash
- Location: VERONA, ITALY
- City: VERONA, ITALY
- Country: Italy
- Topics: Ground Accidents/Collisions,Disaster/Accidents
- Reuters ID: LVA001600XG7B
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Sixteen people were killed and about 40 were injured when a bus carrying Hungarian students burst into flames on a highway in northern Italy, police and the fire service said on Saturday (January 21).
The number of victims could rise to up to 18, but no more, the Hungarian consul in Italy Judit Timaffy told reporters in the city of Verona.
The bus went off the road near a highway exit close to Verona overnight. The local highway police chief said it was carrying mostly teenage students, teachers and parents.
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a news conference that the teenagers were from a Budapest secondary school, returning from their annual ski camp in France.
A spokesman for the minister told Reuters the school was the Szinyei Gimnazium.
Survivors of the accident were staying in a hotel in Verona.
The Hungarian ambassador to Italy Janos Balla arrived at the hotel in Verona to see the survivors and their relatives who arrived from Hungary.
The official passenger list included 54 people, Timaffy said.
A spokesman for the school said there were 36 students on board, some former students, three teachers and the family of one of the teachers. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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