{"id":185514,"date":"2019-03-21T07:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T07:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185514"},"modified":"2019-03-23T06:37:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T06:37:42","slug":"senegalese-man-sets-italian-school-bus-on-fire-with-children-on-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=185514","title":{"rendered":"Senegalese man sets Italian school bus on fire with children on board"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">RT \u2013 March 20, 2019<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/burnt-out-school-bus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-185515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/burnt-out-school-bus-768x432.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/burnt-out-school-bus-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/burnt-out-school-bus-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/burnt-out-school-bus-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/burnt-out-school-bus.png 1240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The driver of a school bus filled with children has been arrested by Italian police for setting fire to the vehicle near Milan. The Senegalese man reportedly called for an end to \u201cdeaths in the Mediterranean\u201d during the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Miraculously all 51 schoolboys managed to escape the fire without injuries, although 12 children and two adults were sent to hospital for smoke inhalation, according to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rainews.it\/dl\/rainews\/articoli\/Appicca-fuoco-su-un-bus-con-scolaresca-a-bordo-fermato-88ce3290-7e4b-4657-9c76-e968f502e3e3.html\">RaiNews24<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The 46-year-old Senegal-born driver reportedly spilled gasoline down the aisle of the bus while shouting that he wants to stop deaths in the Mediterranean Sea before igniting the blaze.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"it\" dir=\"ltr\">Appicca fuoco su un bus con scolaresca a bordo, fermato. L&#39;uomo ha sparso del combustibile sui sedili e nel corridoio dell&#39;autobus. Poi ha appiccato il fuoco. Salvini: &quot;Perch\u00e9 guidava un pullman per trasportare ragazzini&quot;? \u2192 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LT32WZniSQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/LT32WZniSQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AVEghCoM2p\">pic.twitter.com\/AVEghCoM2p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rainews (@RaiNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaiNews\/status\/1108361351624384512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><em>&#8220;I want to end it, the deaths in the Mediterranean must be stopped,&#8221;<\/em> he said according to the Italian news outlet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The children were students of Vailati middle school in the Italian city of Cremona, and raised the alarm by calling their parents after the driver announced that he wanted to kill himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Carabinieri, Italy\u2019s national police service, stopped the vehicle by erecting a series of checkpoints that the driver attempted to break through.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The man eventually lost control of the vehicle and attempted to set the bus alight before the military rescued the students by breaking the windows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Footage of the blaze show firefighters at the scene and the remains of the completely burned vehicle on the side of a busy road. The driver was reportedly known to police and has been arrested for the arson attack.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/454296-senegalese-man-italian-school-bus-fire\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incidents like this only reinforce public support for Salvini\u2019s tough anti-migration policy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185514"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185535,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185514\/revisions\/185535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}