Italian bridge collapse: Tale of two Canadian travellers who narrowly escaped death
Toronto, Aug 14 (IBNS): Couple of Canadian student travellers have narrowly escaped deaths from the collapse of Italian bridge collapse, which claimed 20 lives on Tuesday, media reports said.
Tamar Bresge (23) and Melissa Light (22), the two Toronto women, were travelling on a train which was just away from the bridge minutes before the collapse.
In an interview to CTV News, Bresge said: "Our train would have gone under it in minutes, like less than five minutes."
"We just missed it, like just missed it."
A motorway bridge collapsed near the Italian city of Genoa on Tuesday.
The police linked the disaster to what they called a violent cloudburst, reported the British media.
Several crushed vehicles are under the rubble with dead people inside and two people were pulled out alive, rescue sources told Italy's ANSA news agency.
Some lorries ended up in the Polvecera river, Carabinieri police sources told the agency.
Recounting her experience, Bresge said: "We thought at first that it was a train crash. Then we understood a bridge collapsed. We were stopped so close to the site, we could hear sirens going."
Bresge added in saying, "There was really bad thunder and lightning when it collapsed, so I thought I was just hearing thunder but we were so close that I probably heard something collapsing and just thought it was part of the storm."
Light called the incident as "surreal".
Light said: "It's crazy. We both feel very grateful that we were on the train before the crash and not underneath it. It definitely feels surreal."
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