Six Italians among 23 killed in Dominican bus crash

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SANTO DOMINGO (AFP) — At least 23 people, including several Italian tourists, were killed Friday when two passenger buses crashed with a pickup truck in the Dominican Republic, officials said.

"So far we have counted 23 dead," emergency services coordinator Juan Manuel Mendez Garcia told AFP. "Of them, at least six are foreigners."

The Italian foreign ministry in Rome said a "provisional" count showed that six Italian tourists were among those who died in the crash near the La Romana resort area, ANSA news agency said.

"There are many injured and we are still removing bodies from the scene," said Pedro Morillo, governor of the country's easternmost La Altagracia province, where the accident occurred.

Hotels in the area are filled with international...