A drunken driver plowed into a group of young German tourists in northern Italy early Sunday, killing six people and injuring 11 others, Italian authorities said. The deadly crash occurred in a village of Valle Aurina, northeast of Bolzano in the Alto Adige region, shortly after 1 a.m. as the Germans
ROME — A drunken driver plowed into a group of young German tourists in northern Italy early Sunday, killing six people and injuring 11 others, Italian authorities said.
"The new year begins with a terrible tragedy," said the regional president of Alto Adige, Arno Kompatscher. “We are left stunned.” Coassin said the driver, identified by Italian media as a 28-year-old man from the nearby town of Chienes, was arrested on suspicion of highway manslaughter and injury and was being treated at the hospital in Brunico.
In all, 160 rescue workers and emergency medical personnel responded to the crash, which “looked like a battlefield," according to Helmut Abfalterer of the Lutago volunteer fire service.
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