Italian leader demands safe roads; bridge toll rises to 42
(WorldNews Europe)

GENOA, Italy - Italy`s president demanded guarantees Saturday that all the nation`s roads are safe following the Genoa highway bridge collapse, after he comforted mourners at a state funeral for many of the dead in the grieving port city. Hours earlier, the toll from Tuesday`s bridge collapse rose unofficially to 42, with the reported discovery of four more bodies amid the tons of broken concrete that fell from the city`s key artery, the Morandi Bridge. Before the ceremony began in a pavilion on Genoa`s fairgrounds, President Sergio Mattarella offered quiet words of comfort for families of the victims before taking his place with other Italian leaders, including Premier Giuseppe Conte and...