Bus Crash Near Venice, Italy, Kills at Least 21 People, Including Ukrainian Tourists

Bus Crash Near Venice, Italy, Kills at Least 21 People, Including Ukrainian Tourists
Firefighters work on the site of a bus accident in Mestre, near Venice, on Oct. 3, 2023. Marco Sabadin/AFP via Getty Images
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ROME—At least 21 people were killed and 18 injured in a fiery bus crash in Mestre, Italy, just across the Venetian Lagoon from old Venice, where firefighters and other emergency responders worked into the night trying to extract bodies and squelch the flames.

The bus was carrying foreign tourists, including Ukrainians, according to a Venice official, when it fell from an elevated street Tuesday en route to a camping site near the community of Marghera.