Forty people were killed and another eight were injured in a bus crash near the town of

Monteforte Irpino Monteforte Irpino is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy. A bus crash A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian ...

in Italy on 28 July 2013.

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The bus was carrying

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s to their home from a visit to a

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and fell nearly feet off a bridge east of

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. The bus carried nearly 50 passengers.

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