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REUTERS
GENOA
Firefighters searched on Tuesday for survivors and bodies amid the rubble of a motorway bridge that collapsed in the morning in the northern Italian port city of Genoa, killing dozens.
At least 35 probably died, Italy's ANSA news agency said citing fire brigade sources, while the official body count remained at about 20.
A 50-metre high section of the bridge, including a tower that anchored several supports, crashed down with as many as 35 vehicles driving on it onto the roofs of warehouses and other buildings, plunging huge slabs of reinforced concrete into a riverbed.
"We are still trying to extract survivors from the rubble,"Genoa police official Alessandra Bucci said."We hope to find more people alive."
Within hours of the disaster on a morning of torrential rain, the anti-establishment government that took office in June said the bridge collapse showed Italy needed to spend more to improve its dilapidated infrastructure, ignoring EU budget constraints if necessary.
