Hungary: Official says it could take days to ID bus victims
It could take days to officially identify the 16 people killed when a bus carrying Hungarian students returning from a ski trip crashed in Italy and burst into flames, Hungary's foreign minister said Sunday.
There were 54 passengers and two Hungarian drivers on the bus that crashed on an Italian highway near Verona just before midnight Friday, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said. Two adults hospitalized in critical condition also have yet to be identified.
Szijjarto, visibly shaken by news of the accident, said the days ahead would remain emotionally challenging. "A day has passed since the tragedy, and it is clear that the pain is even sharper," he told reporters. "As the shock fades, the losses become even more excruciating. The long and more painful process, like the identification of the bodies, is about to begin."
