FORLI (Italy), March 13 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A bus carrying about 50 refugees from Ukraine has overturned on a major highway in northern Italy, killing one passenger and injuring several others, Italian state radio reported.
RAI radio said one woman died but the rest of those on board were safely evacuated after the accident near the town of Forli early on Sunday.
No serious injuries were reported.
The bus’s destination was not immediately clear.
Some 35,000 Ukrainians refugees who fled the war have entered Italy, most of them through its north-eastern border with Slovenia.
Forli is in the region of Emilia-Romagna, which borders the Adriatic Sea and which so far has taken in some 7,000 refugees.
The accident is under investigation. — NNN-AGENCIES
