Just a few hours after the tragic event that has shocked all of Italy, investigators have set out to clarify the reasons that caused this Tuesday night A bus suffered a terrible accident in Mestre (Venice). An accident that has left more than 20 dead, including two children, and multiple injuries, with two Spaniards also among those affected.

According to a first hypothesis that is already being developed, the driver of the vehicle, a 40-year-old Italian who has also died, could have fallen seriously ill. This was stated by the commander of the Venice municipal police, Marco Agostini. Thus, the victim may have felt momentarily unwell, given that there are no signs of braking before braking. Thus, the bus, which was traveling on a straight stretch before breaking the guardrail, fell into the void and caught fire.

In order to obtain more information, the chief prosecutor of Venice, Bruno Cherchi, has announced that in the next few hours an examination of what happened will be carried out and a medical-legal investigation will begin as well as the identification of the victims will continue. . Among those that are already identified, two of them are children and a young woman of 14 or 15 years oldand there are also five Ukrainian citizens, a German, and the driver of the vehicle, according to the government delegate of Venice, Michele Di Bari.

As for the Spanish people injured in the incident, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed to laSexta that There are two injured people to whom they are already providing assistance. As they have detailed, both are hospitalized and, for now, they are fine. Regarding the rest of the injured, they have been transferred to three hospitals in the area of ​​Mestre, Mirano, Dolo, Padua and Treviso. Six of them are in serious condition, including a five-year-old girl with burns.

The vehicle was an electric bus that carried the tourists and residents of the “Hu” campsite in Marghera. As soon as it occurred, rescue teams worked at the scene of the accident, where numerous ambulances and fire vehicles gathered, while the movement of trains between Mestre and the Santa Lucia station in Venice was blocked, according to local media. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has already expressed her “deepest condolences, personal and from the entire government.”

“I think of the victims and their family and friends. “I am in close contact with the mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, and with the minister (of the Interior) Matteo Piantedosi to follow the news about this tragedy,” said the Italian leader. The mayor of Venice, Luigi Brugnaro, one of the first to going to the scene of the tragedy, revealed that he had decreed “mourning, in memory of the numerous victims who were in the fallen bus. An apocalyptic scene, there are no words.”