Driver hijacks bus with 51 children near Milan

A driver who set alight a bus full of schoolchildren on the outskirts of Milan was apparently protesting against migrant drownings in the Mediterranean.

Students leave with with their parents the Margherita Hack school in San Donato Milanese, near Milan, Italy, after their bus was hijacked Source: AAP Image/EPA/Daniel Dal Zennaro

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