Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has declared a 12-month state of emergency in response to the motorway bridge collapse in Genoa that left 39 people dead.
Rescue efforts are still ongoing in at the scene of the disaster, but there is fading hope of pulling any further survivors from the rubble.
The cause of the bridge's collapse is not yet known but there have been calls from top officials for heads of the company operating the bridge to resign.
Vehicles plummetted up to 40m from the Morandi Bridge when it collapsed in a storm on Tuesday (NZ time).
Concerns had been raised over the structural safety of the bridge in recent years and in 2016 structural engineer Antonio Brencich spoke of "errors in the bridge".
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