Genoa: Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Tuesday that "around 30" have been killed after a motorway bridge collapsed in the northwestern port city of Genoa.
"Unfortunately there are around 30 dead and many injured in a serious condition," Salvini told reporters in the Sicilian city of Catania.
The collapse, which saw a vast stretch of the A10 freeway tumble on to railway lines in the northern port city, was the deadliest bridge failure in Italy for years, and the country's deputy transport minister warned the death toll could climb further.
Rescuers scouring through the wreckage, strewn among shrubland and train tracks, said there were "tens of victims", while images from the scene showed an entire carriageway plunged to the ground.