For other Americans: a coach is a bus. It’s not talking about a sports team coach.

Holy shit man no one deserves to go this way

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He then rushed to the scene. “As I reached the bus, the screams turned into a blood-curdling silence,” he said. “I wanted to help but was stopped by a friend and a policewoman, because the bus was still on fire and at risk of explosion.”

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The coach was carrying a group of tourists who were returning to a campsite in Marghera after spending the day in Venice, according to reports in the Italian media.

Those on board included Ukrainian, German and French citizens, according to Venice prefect Michele Di Bari.

“It seems that the aggravating factor of the scenario was determined by the fact that it [the bus] was powered by methane, therefore the fire developed quickly,” he told TG1.

Sky Italia reported that 18 bodies had so far been dragged from the wreckage after the coach caught fire, with numerous others injured.

“I heard heavy braking, I thought it was a train,” one witness, called Leonardo, told LaPresse news agency.

However, the commander of the Venice Municipal Police, Marco Agostini, was quoted by Italian news agency Ansa as saying that preliminary findings showed there were “no signs of braking”.

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