Bus full of Ukrainian refugees overturns in Italy; 1 dead

A bus carrying about 50 Ukrainian refugees overturns on a major highway in northern Italy, killing one person, Italian firefighters say.

Italian state radio says there were several injured in the accident on the A14 autostrada near Forli, a town in the Emilia-Romagna region in northeastern Italy. It says the rest of those aboard were safely evacuated.

Italy’s Interior Ministry says the bus had set out from Ukraine and was heading south to Pescara, an Adriatic port city, when it overturned. The passengers were taken to a nearby police barracks for initial assistance, and will later resume their journey, the ministry says.

Some 35,000 Ukrainians refugees who fled war in their homeland have entered Italy, most of them through its northeastern border with Slovenia.