This footage was filmed and roduced 3 October 2023.

STORYLINE
At least 21 people died, including two children, after a passenger bus carrying Italians and foreigners fell from an elevated bridge in Mestre, near Venice, in what was described as an "apocalyptic scene".

The bus left the city of Venice, in northern Italy, heading to Marghera and was "full of people returning home from work," said Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro, speaking to state television station RAI.

"It went completely off the road and flew over the bridge. It was a bus, it was a road. We are in mourning," he added. The mayor of Venice described the scene as "apocalyptic" in a Facebook post.

Francesco Martino, chief of staff of the Venice prefecture, told CNN that 18 people were also injured in the accident and that authorities were still trying to determine the cause.

This footage illustrates the scene where passenger bus fell from an elevated bridge in Mestre, near Venice, Italy.