ROME: Italian police on Wednesday rescued 51 children taken hostage by their school bus driver, who doused the vehicle in petrol and set it alight apparently in protest at migrant deaths in the Mediterranean.
A dozen children and two of the adults were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation while the arrested driver, an Italian citizen of Senegalese origin, also needed treatment for burns to his hands. One of the children managed to pick up a phone that had been dropped and call their parents who in turned phoned the police.Police blocked the bus in the street and broke open the back windows to get the children out before the vehicle went up in flames.
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