Italian officials handed jail terms for Genoa bridge disaster that killed 43

Italian officials have been handed prison sentences over the twenty eighteen Genoa bridge collapse that killed forty-three people, BBC World reports. Giovanni Castellucci, the former head of Italy's motorway operator, received a twelve-year term. The collapse of the Genoa motorway bridge stands as one of Italy's deadliest infrastructure failures in recent memory.

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