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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Angela Giuffrida in Mestre, Venice

Venice crash victims named as debate rages over Italy’s roads

Firefighters and rescue personnel at the crash site.
Firefighters and rescue personnel at the crash site. Photograph: Claudia Greco/Reuters

The identities of the 21 tourists who were killed in a coach crash near Venice, including nine Ukrainians, a toddler from Germany and a pregnant Croatian woman on honeymoon, have been confirmed, as controversy mounts over Italy’s ageing road infrastructure.

The coach crash – the second most deadly to have occurred in the country in the past decade – also killed a family of four from Romania, a couple in their mid-50s from Portugal, two Germans aged 28 and 32, a South African woman and the Italian driver.

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