Two Nigerian migrants residing in Italy have rescued 18 passengers who were involved in a fatal bus accident.

The Nigerians, Odion Eboigbe and Godstime Erheneden, carried out the rescue with the assistance of Aboubacar Touré, a Gambian migrant, on Venice’s mainland in north-eastern Italy on October 3.

The three migrants, who work as manual labourers in the city, pulled the victims out of the flames of a bus that had fallen off an overpass, a bridge by which a road or railway line passes over another.

According to Infomigrants, the three migrants who took part in the rescue were between the ages of 26 and 30.

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“Yesterday I was cooking and we all heard a large noise, like an earthquake. Our Italian co-worker Massimo opened a window and told us that a bus had fallen,” Touré said.

“So then we went down and saw the bus, which had caught fire. There was a woman who wanted to get out but her daughter was inside. She did not speak Italian and instead said ‘my daughter’ in English.

“I grabbed her hand and pulled her out and then pulled her daughter out. I took the fire extinguisher to put out the fire but it was not enough. The carabinieri arrived and then the fire squad. We used a wire puller alongside them and we did what we could, pulling out people and even a dog.”

Eboigbe, one of the two Nigerian rescuers, said his clothes were soaked with blood from rescuing the victims.

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“The carabinieri (Italian paramilitary police) gave us new clothes, as they were bloodied. New shoes for my friend who lost them, too. But I did not think about death. I just wanted to save people,” said Eboigbe.

Unfortunately, the three migrants were only able to rescue 18 passengers, who were mostly tourists, from the accident. Twenty one others, including the bus driver, did not survive the fatal crash.

“I saw him (the driver) but his head was bleeding; he was dead. Only afterwards did I feel any fear. When people called for help, I wasn’t afraid. I had never seen anything like this, people dying with their clothes on fire,” Eboigbe further said.