36 die in bus accident

Barely a week after a train crash in Spain that killed 80, at least 36 people were killed and 11 more were injured after a bus carrying pilgrims plunged off a motorway flyover in southern Italy, rescue services said on July 29. They had been thrown from the vehicle as it plunged 30 meters down a slope. Photographers at the scene described how fire crews raced to find any remaining survivors, as the victims were laid out under white sheets along the roadside. The passengers had been returning to Naples following a pilgrimage to Pietrelcina, the birthplace of Saint Pio, an Italian priest canonized in 2002 who is highly venerated in southern Italy. On July 24, at least 80 people died in a train crash in Spain.

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