3:38 p.m. ET, August 14, 2018
22 killed in bridge collapse, Italian prime minister says
From CNN's Vasco Cotovio
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte says 22 people have been confirmed dead in the Genoa bridge collapse. He added that 16 people were injured, nine of them in serious condition.
This is a lower death toll than previously reported: Earlier on Tuesday, the office of the governor of the northwestern Liguria region — where Genoa is located — had said on its official twitter account that the death toll had climbed to 35.
Conte called the collapse of a bridge near Genoa “an incredible tragedy" as he spoke to journalists at the site of the collapse.
When asked what could have caused the collapse, Conte said authorities were looking at possible “structural failure."