A motorway bridge has collapsed in the northwest Italian city of Genoa and fire brigade sources said 35 people were believed killed as vehicles plummeted to the ground, British Broadcasting Corporation reported. The official death toll was given as 22 on Tuesday evening by the Governor of Liguria region, Giovanni Toti, but he warned the number would “certainly rise significantly.”Fire brigade sources told Ansa that 35 people were dead and 12 missing. Fears that other parts of the bridge might fall had prompted the evacuation of buildings in the area, a rescuer told Italy’s Ansa news agency. Interior Minister Matteo Salvini promised that anyone found to be responsible for the bridge collapse would be held to account. “We saw lightning strike the bridge,” eyewitness Pietro M all’Asa, was quoted as saying by Ansa.

Source: Punch August 15, 2018 00:45 UTC