Venice prosecutors have put three
people under investigation over last week's bus disaster in the
city's Mestre district in which 21 people died, local newspaper
Il Gazzettino reported on Thursday.
They are the CEO of 'La Linea', the company that operated the
bus, and two city of Venice officials, the manager of the
Traffic and Mobility department for the mainland area of the
city and the manager of the Road Maintenance department,
according to the report.
They reportedly face charges of vehicular homicide, multiple
culpable homicide, causing serious or very serious road injuries
and culpable personal harm.
Last week 21 people - nine Ukrainians, four Romanians, three
Germans, two Portuguese, one Croatian, one South African and the
Italian bus driver - died after a tourist bus travelling from
the centre of Venice to a camping site plunged from an overpass
above a railway line between the districts of Mestre and
Marghera and burst into flames.
The reasons for the accident are unclear.
One hypothesis is that the driver had a bad turn while at the
wheel.
However, doubts have also been raised about the state of the
overpass and particularly the guardrail.
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