At least one person has died in Italy after a bus carrying about 50 Ukrainian refugees overturned.
The incident on a major highway in north-eastern Italy happened at around dawn on Sunday, killing a woman, firefighters say.
Italian state radio added that several other people were injured in the accident on the A14 autostrada near Forli, a town in the Emilia-Romagna region.Images show the vehicle on its side on a grassy slope just beyond a highway guardrail and near a farm field.The cause of the accident is under investigation.
The ministry added that passengers were taken to a nearby police barracks and given support, before later resuming their journey. Some 35,000 Ukrainian refugees who fled war in their homeland have entered Italy, most of them through its north-eastern border with Slovenia, with pictures showing a number of children in buses.Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, the country has suffered
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