Driver may have fallen ill before fatal Venice bus crash that kills at least 21

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Italian authorities were investigating on Wednesday the cause of the horrific crash of a bus carrying foreign tourists on the outskirts of Venice which killed 21 people including several children and injured 15 others.   Read more at https://tinyurl.com/4ke55kyd  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Nearly two dozen people died after a bus careened off a highway near Venice, Italy on Tuesday,

00:07 many of them tourists.

00:09 Local authorities confirmed five of the victims were Ukrainian and one was German.

00:13 The bus was also carrying passengers from France and Croatia, according to Italian news

00:17 agency ANSA.

00:18 The tourist bus veered off the road and fell off an overpass in the district of Mestri,

00:23 which is connected to Venice by bridge, before crashing into electricity lines near railway

00:28 tracks where it caught fire around 7.45 p.m. local time.

00:32 At least a dozen more people are injured, several of them in critical condition, according

00:36 to Venice officials.

00:37 There are fears the death toll could rise.

00:40 Authorities say 40 passengers were on board the coach, not including the driver, a 40-year-old

00:45 Italian who was among those killed.

00:47 While the cause of the accident remains unclear, one line of official inquiry was that the

00:51 driver was ill before the crash.

00:54 Late on Tuesday evening, rescuers were seen struggling to remove the wreckage of the bus

00:58 to make sure no more passengers were trapped inside.

01:01 One Venice official told Sky Italia TV the firefighters had difficulty getting most of

01:06 the bodies out as the bus had been totally crushed.

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