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Video shows deadly explosion on highway in Bologna, Italy
ABC Chicago:BOLOGNA, Italy -- A major explosion on a highway in Bologna, Italy, has left at least two dead and up to 70 people injured, the Associated Press reports.
The explosion happened after an accident that involved a truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas, according to the Italian news agency ANSA. The explosion caused the thoroughfare to partially collapse.
Video captured by a witness shows the explosion and a plume of smoke filling the sky.