12 kids hospitalised after driver sets packed school bus on fire in Italy ‘in protest at migrant deaths’
Driver yelled 'I'll carry out a massacre' and threatened to douse tied-up kids with petrol, reports claim
A BUS full of schoolchildren was hijacked by its driver who threatened to kill them all before setting the coach on fire today.
He shouted "No one will survive" as he rammed cars and vowed to douse the children with petrol on a terror drive through Milan.
Sky TG24 said he has worked for the bus company for 15 years without any problems.
Milan provincial security official Riccardo De Corato said: "Investigators must clarify how the transport company permitted such a delinquent to drive a bus, especially one carrying children."
The United Nations estimates 2,297 migrants drowned or went missing in the Mediterranean in 2018 as they tried to reach Europe.
Only yesterday a Libyan security official said at least ten migrants died when their boat sank off the Libyan coast near the western town of Sabratha.
The Italian government has closed its ports to charity rescue ships that pick up migrants off the Libyan coast.
Salvini says this has helped reduce deaths because far fewer people are now attempting the crossing.
Human rights groups say deaths might have increased with hardly any boats now searching for the would-be refugees.
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