ROME, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- The unofficial death toll of the Genoa bridge collapse rose to 42 overnight, local media reported early on Saturday.
RAI public broadcaster said the body of a local sanitation company worker has been extracted from the rubble while earlier in the day, ANSA news agency said the bodies of a couple and their nine-year-old daughter were extracted overnight from their car, which was crushed by a block of cement.
Saturday's death toll increase from the previous report of 38 people killed remains unofficial because the bodies have not yet been formally identified.
Firefighters said on Twitter that "the destroyed carcass" of a car was recovered overnight.
Genoa Prefecture spokeswoman Ornella Sansalone told Xinhua mid-morning that "currently four people are missing, a vehicle has been located in the rubble, and search operations are ongoing."
Sansalone confirmed that a fifth missing person has called in to report himself safe.
Hundreds of rescuers have been working around the clock since a section of a much-traveled highway viaduct in the northwestern port city gave way just before noon on Aug. 14, sending several cars and trucks crashing into a railway, a riverbed, and some warehouses that lay 45 meters below.
The search is ongoing for two people who are still missing, an Italian sanitation worker and a German citizen, RAI reported.
The Italian government has declared a national day of mourning on Saturday for those victims. A state funeral was also expected on the day.
On Friday, the Genoa prefecture said in a statement that 38 bodies had been identified and that 10 injured people were still hospitalized, six of them in critical condition. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Wednesday had put the provisional number of dead at 39.
As for Friday, the number of missing people in the collapse was reported up to 10-20.
