All 51 children managed to escape unhurt before the bus was engulfed in flames on the outskirts of Milan, Italy's business capital. Police named the driver as Ousseynou Sy, a 47-year-old Italian citizen of Senegalese origin. "He shouted, 'Stop the deaths at sea, I'll carry out a massacre'," police spokesman Marco Palmieri quoted Sy as telling police after his arrest. A video posted on Italian news sites showed the driver ramming the bus into cars on a provincial highway before the fire took hold. One of the children told reporters that the driver had threatened to pour petrol over them and set them alight.

Source: bd News24 March 21, 2019 06:33 UTC