(UTV|COLOMBO) Firefighters searched into the night on Tuesday for survivors and bodies amid the rubble of a motorway bridge that collapsed in the morning in the northern Italian port city of Genoa, killing at least 22. While that remained the official death toll, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said from Genoa on Tuesday evening that the number would rise. Italy’s ANSA news agency reported that some 35 probably were killed, citing fire brigade sources.
A 50 metre-high section of the bridge, including a tower that anchored several supports, crashed down with as many as 35 vehicles driving on it, landing on the roofs of two warehouses, plunging huge slabs of reinforced concrete onto train tracks and into a riverbed.
More than 400 people were evacuated from 11 buildings located near or below the still-standing of the bridge, the city said. The collapse appears not to have killed anyone under the road, but only those who were driving on it, the civil protection agency said earlier.
Firefighters still heard voices from under the rubble up until an hour ago, fire official Bruno Frattasi told state broadcaster RAI, saying that seven survivors had been pulled out so far.
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