Thirty-Seven Dead In Italy Tour Bus Plunge

At least 37 people have been killed after a coach plunged 100ft down a motorway embankment and split in half in Italy.

The tour bus, carrying many children, hit several cars before plunging down the slope near Naples.

Many of the dead were discovered lying outside of the bus, while others were found inside the mangled wreckage.

Rescuers with electric saws cut through the twisted metal to explore the inside of the bus, stopping occasionally in silence to listen for any cries for help.

It is not known if anyone in the cars has been injured

At least 11 people - including four children - were taken to hospital and two are in a critical condition.

The bodies were laid out on the roadside, covered in white sheets as emergency crews attended to the injured. A number of wooden coffins were also brought to the scene.

It is understood the driver of the coach is among the dead, a fire service spokesman said.

The coach had been warned of heavy traffic ahead near Avellino, outside Naples, along a stretch of the A116 motorway, before the crash, highway officials said.

Coffins are lined up at the scene of the crash

The officials said the bus driver, for reasons not yet determined, appeared to have lost control of his vehicle.

Witnesses described hearing a noise as if the vehicle had blown a tyre, shortly before the accident.

Reports said as many as 49 people had been aboard the bus when it ripped through a guardrail into a ravine near a wooded area.

Occupants of cars which were hit by the bus stood on the highway near their vehicles after the crash.

At least 11 people - including four children - were taken to hospital

One car's rear was completely crumpled, while another was smashed on its side. It was not immediately known if anyone in those cars had been injured.

The highway links western and eastern Italy across the south.

First reports said the passengers had spent the day in Puglia, an area near the Adriatic on the east coast famed for religious shrines.

But later it was reported that the bus had been bringing the passengers home after an outing to a thermal spa near the town of Benevento, not far from Avellino.

The coach crashed in a rural area near Naples

Most of the passengers were from the Campania area around Naples, the Italian news agency ANSA said.

The bus drove off the highway near the town of Monteforte Irpino in Irpinia, a largely agricultural area about 40 miles inland from Naples and 160 miles south of Rome.

A reporter for Naples daily Il Mattino said witnesses told him the bus had been going at a "normal" speed on the downhill stretch when it suddenly veered and started hitting cars.

He said some witnesses thought they heard a noise as if the bus had blown a tyre.

A local prosecutor arrived at the crash scene to begin an investigation into the cause of the crash.

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