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A6 WORLD NEWS
Thursday 5 OcTOber 2023

Italy identifies 20 foreign tourists who perished in fiery crash from

overpass on Venetian mainland

By C. Barry and G.Zampano said Rita Lorio, a psycholo-
Associated Press gist at Mestre's main hospi-
VENICE, Italy (AP) — Vene- tal, one of five treating the
tian mainlanders stopped injured. "They are not yet in
in dismay Wednesday to that phase of awareness of
pay respects to the 21 peo- what happened.”
ple, all but one foreign tour- The tourists are all believed
ists, who were killed when to have stayed at the Hu
an all-electric shuttle bus Venezia Camping in Town,
crashed through an over- just a 15-minute drive from
pass guardrail and fence, shuttle bus’s pickup point
plunging more than 10 me- at Piazzale Roma, at the
ters (30 feet) to the ground. edge of Venice’s famed
The raised road opposite canals linked to the main-
a major train station is one land by a bridge.
of the borough of Mestre's The crash has shocked Ve-
most frequently traveled, netians, two-thirds of whom
without second thoughts. live on the mainland. Many
But they now stopped to stopped on Wednesday
inspect the aging guardrail morning to pay their re-
and rusted fence — both spects, staring at the gap-
of which the bus sliced ing guardrail and fence.
through in a moment dur- One man stopped on his
ing Tuesday rush-hour traf- A bunch of plastic flowers is seen at the scene of a passenger bus accident in Mestre, near the motorcycle to tie plastic
fic. The bus was just a year city of Venice, Italy, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. The bus fell from an elevated road, late Tuesday, flowers to a post.
killing multiple people.
old, and the 40-year-old (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni) Gianni Amadeo, an
driver with an untarnished 80-year-old retired musi-
record had just started his hicle, and said the shuttle Gov. Luca Zaia said the cir- ed a 3-year-old girl who suf- cian, stopped in disbelief
shift shuttling tourists from bus scraped against the cumstances suggested the fered serious burns, as well Wednesday at the site that
Piazzale Roma, at the edge guardrail for at least 50 me- driver may have suddenly as visitors from Spain, Aus- he passes regularly be-
of Venice’s famed canals, ters (more than 150 feet) become ill. tria, France, Croatia and tween his home and a ga-
to a four-star campground before its fiery crash to a Investigators hope that vid- Germany. Nine were being rage he uses for storage.
on the mainland offering surface road. eo from cameras inside the treated in intensive care “It took a scary flight,” he
bargain accommodation. The guardrail was bent to bus will reveal the reason for trauma, including burns said of the bus’s plunge.
The driver, Alberto Rizzotto, the pavement, and the for the crash. Nine Ukraini- and fractures. Survivors also Family members of the
was among the dead. fence was ripped open. ans were among the dead included a young Austrian dead and survivors were
A video showed the city- The bus landed upside tourists, along with four Ro- brother and sister. trickling in to Venice from
owned bus disappear from down, its front end crushed. manians, three Germans, “They are still in what we around Europe on Wednes-
the frame, as another larg- Fire damage was visible. two Portuguese, one Croat call the shock phase, with day. The Veneto region
er bus traveling behind it “Inexplicable,’’ said Mayor and one South African. confused memories. They declared three days of
continued along the over- Luigi Brugnaro, who has The injured included at are still in that state of agi- mourning, and flags were
pass. Prosecutors ruled out driven on the overpass hun- least four Ukrainians, part of tation and confusion typi- flown at half-staff at gov-
contact with any other ve- dreds of times. Regional a larger group that includ- cal of the traumatic event,'' ernment buildings.q

Kenya’s foreign minister reassigned

days after touchy comment on

country’s police mission in Haiti

the country’s police in the has been controversial lo- and interior security minis-
Kenya-led Haiti peace- cally and internationally. tries, which are critical in
keeping mission would be As foreign minister, Mutua the Haiti mission.
deployed “within a short was vocal about the Haiti Another notable change is
time.” mission, giving prospec- the reassigning of the trade
Alfred Mutua’s statement tive deployment times and and investment minister
came shortly after the U.N preparations that are un- Moses Kuria, who was con-
Security Council approved derway. His counterpart in spicuously missing when
Prime Minister of Haiti Ariel Henry, left, greets Kenyan Cabinet the force Monday and was the interior security ministry, the president signed trade
Secretary for Foreign and Diaspora Affairs Alfred Nganga issued before President where policing issues fall, deals on the sidelines of the
Mutua, right, before United States Secretary of State Antony William Ruto’s statement. has been quiet about the the recently concluded U.N
Blinken addresses diplomats during a meeting on the security
situation in Haiti in New York on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023. The president did not men- deployment. General Assembly meet-
(Bing Guan/Pool Photo via AP) tion when the deployment Ruto reassaigned Mutua ing. Kuria will now serve in
would take place. to the tourism ministry and the public service docket.
By Evelyne Musambi was moved to the tourism Kenya has committed to handed the foreign affairs The president has recently
Associated Press post Wednesday as part leading a multinational post to politician Musalia cracked down on govern-
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ke- of a Cabinet reshuffle just force to combat gang vio- Mudavadi. No changes ment spending and foreign
nya’s foreign affairs minister days after the official said lence in Haiti, a plan that were made in the defense travel by officials.q