Schoolchildren killed in Italy bus crash fire

UP to 16 people, most of them schoolchildren, were killed when a bus crashed and caught fire in northern Italy.

Nearly 40 others survived but a number were badly injured when the bus, taking pupils and staff back to Hungary after a trip to France, hit a motorway support barrier.

The driver was coming off the A4 near Verona when the accident happened on Friday evening.

The pupils, mostly teenage boys, had been on a mountain holiday.