#englishnews #Venicebuscrashinvestigate <br /><br />News Article :-<br />Italian authorities on Wednesday were investigating a bus crash the previous night that killed 21 people in Venice.<br /><br />The bus broke through a guardrail and fell off an overpass in the northeastern Italian city. The cause of the crash is still unclear.<br /><br />What do we know about the crash so far?<br /><br />Those who died in the crash included at least five Ukrainians and three Germans, Venice Prefect Michele Di Bari said.<br /><br />Bari said many of the people involved in the accident were "young," and at least two of the dead were children.<br />Nine people were in critical condition, hospital officials said on Wednesday morning. This included a 3-year-old girl from Ukraine.<br /><br />Firefighters continued working until dawn on Wednesday to clear the wreckage of the bus.<br /><br />Before the incident, the vehicle had been carrying tourists from the historic center of Venice to a campsite in nearby Marghera.<br /><br />Rail traffic to the Venetian Lagoon from the mainland had resumed by early Wednesday, as had campsite shuttle buses.<br /><br />Local officials said the injured also included French, Spanish, Austrian and Croatian citizens.<br /><br />Only nine of those killed have been identified so far, according to the head of the northeastern Veneto region, Luca Zaia.<br /><br />Driver 'may have fallen ill'<br /><br />The public prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the incident.<br /><br />Among the 21 fatalities was the bus driver, a 40-year-old Italian.<br /><br />The driver's colleagues said he was known for his professional work.<br /><br />"We don't understand how this could happen," Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro said.<br /><br />Zaia said authorities' "main hypothesis is that the driver of the bus ... may have fallen ill."<br /><br />Authorities hope images from surveillance cameras will be able to help determine the cause of the crash. A camera in the bus may have also recorded the events, although it is yet to have been recovered from the wreckage.<br /><br />Massimo Fiorese, the CEO of bus company Linea Spa, said that pictures show that the vehicle had been braking before it plunged off of the overpass.<br /><br />"What we know is that there is a fixed camera on the bridge. From what I have seen in the pictures, you can see the bus coming at less than 50 kilometres per hour. You can see the brake lights come on — so it was braking," he said.
