The Ministry of Foreign Affairs clarified this Thursday that there are no reports of injuries to persons of Portuguese nationality as a result of the bus accident on Tuesday evening in the Venice region, which killed 21 people, two of whom were Portuguese.
On Wednesday evening, a Foreign Ministry (MNE) source said two Portuguese were killed and one injured in a bus accident in the Venice region of north-eastern Italy.
In the information sent to Lusa this Thursday, the MNE indicates that the Italian authorities have just officially confirmed the death of two Portuguese citizens in a bus accident in Venice and have not reported any injuries to persons of Portuguese nationality.
ME states that it is monitoring the situation through the Portuguese Embassy in Rome and is already in contact with the relatives of the deceased couple.
Late on Wednesday, the mayor of Venice announced, according to Italian media, the citizenship of all the victims of the bus accident: nine Ukrainians, four Romanians, three Germans, two Portuguese, one Italian. [o motorista]Croatian and South African.
The authorities of Venice have asked the Italian government to declare three days of mourning in the region in connection with the death of 21 people on a bus that fell from a viaduct.
In addition to the 21 deaths, at least 15 people were injured as a result of the accident.
The passengers on the bus were mostly young foreign tourists returning to Venice from a nearby campsite.
The vehicle was an electric bus that caught fire after falling from a height of about 15 meters, damaging the viaduct’s protection.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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