(MENAFN) A bus with 51 schoolchildren was abducted by its driver and set on fire near Milan in Italy.
The children, some tied up, were rescued through broken windows at the back of the bus and with no bad injuries, but fourteen suffered smoke inhalation.
The driver, a 47-year-old Italian citizen originally from Senegal, has been arrested, and had allegedly said "no-one will survive".
Milan chief prosecutor said: "It was a miracle, it could have been a massacre."
A teacher who had been on the bus said the suspect was known to be angry about the country's immigration policy and about the deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean.
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