Venice crash victims named as debate rages over Italy’s roads

Identities confirmed of 21 tourists killed when coach crashed through railings and fell 15 metres onto overpass

The identities of the 21 tourists who were killed in a coach crash near Venice, including nine Ukrainians, a toddler from Germany and a pregnant Croatian woman on honeymoon, have been confirmed, as controversy mounts over Italy's ageing road infrastructure.

The coach crash - the second most deadly to have occurred in the country in the past decade - also cost the lives of a family of four from Romania, a couple in their mid-50s from Portugal, two Germans aged 28 and 32, a South African woman and the Italian driver.