(MENAFN) A teacher credited with saving many pupils from a burning bus after it crashed in northern Italy lost his own children in the fire, officials say.
Sixteen people died in the accident, another seven are in hospital.
The bus, carrying pupils from Hungary, collided with a roadside column near Verona late on Friday.
Gyorgy Vigh pulled many children out of the bus. But his son, 30, and his daughter, 18, died, said Hungary's Consul-General in Milan Judith Timaffy.
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