Sixteen die in Hungarian school trip fireball crash

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>At least 16 people have died after a bus taking Hungarian students home from a school ski trip to France slammed into a highway barrier in northern Italy and burst into flames&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thirty-nine other people survived the crash on a highway near Verona&comma; with 26 injured&comma; some seriously&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The impact of the crash was so violent that an overpass support column tore through the bus&comma; officials said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The ensuing fireball burned some of the 16 dead beyond recognition&comma; with a twisted steel skeleton all that remains of the bus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One teacher managed to save some of the children&comma; suffering serious burns to his back as he did so&comma; according to Judit Timaffy of Hungary&&num;8217&semi;s consulate&comma; who was at the scene of the crash&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;The kids told me that the fire started and they escaped from the fire&comma; breaking the windows of the bus&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> she said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;Some of them managed to escape&comma; but many were left inside&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>No other vehicles were involved&comma; and the cause is not known&comma; police commander Girolamo Lacquaniti said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hungarian foreign minister Peter Szijjarto said&colon; <i>&&num;8220&semi;One passenger is currently in an induced coma and in life-threatening condition&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Mr Szijjarto&comma; the bus driver lost control of the vehicle&comma; which hit a guard rail before the overpass support and then exploded&period; Investigators found no brake marks at the scene&comma; he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Timaffy said investigators are looking into the possibility the driver fell asleep at the wheel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>RAI state radio said a Slovenian truck driver travelling behind the bus had noticed a problem with one of its wheels and tried to alert the driver&period; But the bus driver did not react quickly enough&comma; RAI said&period; The Slovenian truck driver stayed at the scene&comma; trying to help&comma; until investigators arrived&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Budapest&comma; a black flag flew above the Szinyei Merse Pal Gimnazium school&period; About 60 students gathered for a vigil outside&comma; lighting small candles and laying flowers in memory of the victims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;We knew many of them&comma; but the ones we were closest to and in daily contact are mostly all right&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> student Tamas Mezo said after placing candles at the school&&num;8217&semi;s door&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said the school organised a ski camp each year&comma; involving about 50-60 students and a few teachers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&&num;8220&semi;I was very much planning on going this year but in the end it didn&&num;8217&semi;t work out&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i> Tamas said&period; <i>&&num;8220&semi;There were three or four teachers on the bus and unfortunately one of them did not survive&period; Our hearts our hurting because we loved him&period; He was really nice&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Survivors had been taken to a nearby hotel and were being interviewed by investigators&period; The parents of some of the children are heading there to bring them home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Hungary&&num;8217&semi;s foreign ministry said it was told that there were 54 passengers and two drivers aboard&comma; but it believes the actual number was higher&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Condolences came in from Italy&&num;8217&semi;s president and its foreign minister&comma; as well as the German chancellor Angela Merkel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2e3e28d4e">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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