(ANSA) A 47-year-old bus driver was held by Carabinieri police on Wednesday after allegedly hijacking a bus with schoolchildren aboard and subsequently setting it on fire after tying their hands with plastic clips in an apparent attempt to kill them, sources said.
According to an initial reconstruction, the man hijacked the bus with 51 pupils from a middle school in the northern province of Cremona.
The suspect has been named as Ousseynou Sy, a man with a criminal record who is originally from Senegal but has been an Italian citizen since 2004.
He said he wanted to kill himself and “stop the deaths in the Mediterranean,” the sources said.
