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GENOA, Italy (AP) - Italy's president demanded guarantees Saturday that all the nation's roads are safe following the Genoa highway bridge collapse, after he hugged and comforted mourners at a state funeral in the grieving port city. Italy’s head of state, President Sergio Mattarella, and Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte attended the ceremony as well as Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli. Before the ceremony began, in a pavilion on Genoa's fairgrounds, President Sergio Mattarella offered quiet words of comfort for families of the victims before taking his place with other Italian leaders, including Premier Giuseppe Conte and the transportation and infrastructure minister in the cavernous pavilion hall. Afterward, Mattarella called the funeral, which took place on a day of national mourning, "a moment of grief, shared grief, by all of Italy." Genoa bridge collapse: Death toll rises to 43 as thousands attend state funeral for victims

Italy has mourned the victims of the collapse of a motorway bridge in the northern city of Genoa with a state funeral as rescue workers reportedly find four more bodies and a man dies in hospital, bringing the death toll to 43. The report also said rescuers believe all those previously thought missing might now have been accounted for, after an elderly man called local authorities to say he was OK and not involved in Tuesday's tragedy. The families of 19 victims their loved ones' coffins brought to the hall for the funeral Mass led by Genoa's archbishop, Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco, who said the tragedy "gashed the heart of Genoa." GENOA, Italy >> The death toll from the collapse of a highway bridge in the Italian city of Genoa that is already confirmed to have claimed at least 38 lives will certainly rise, a senior official said Thursday. Players and managers from the city's two major league soccer teams, Genoa and Sampdoria, also attended after their weekend matches were postponed out of respect for the dead. Autostrade per l'Italia, the company that manages Italy's highway system, held a news conference Saturday in Genoa, maintaining it has always acted responsibly as the operator of the toll road.
The death toll from the Ponte Morandi collapse in Genoa, Italy, rises to 43.