Six fans injured in Juve title parade

Turin, May 20 

Six Juventus fans were injured, two seriously, when a truck they were travelling in during the Italian champions’ victory parade struck the electric cables of the city’s tramway, according the media reports. Juventus were celebrating winning their seventh straight Serie A title and fourth Italian Cup in a row with an open top bus parade through the streets of Turin on Saturday night.

According to reports, the truck was carrying supporters from one of the team’s fan clubs and was closely following the players’ bus before becoming entangled in the electric cables of the tram.

Six were injured and two will remain in hospital overnight, one being treated for concussion and the other a neck injury.

It was the first time since 2014 under Antonio Conte that Juventus’s players got to celebrate their title with their fans in the streets of Turin where they were greeted by thousands of their supporters. In recent years, Juventus skipped the parade because they had qualified for the Champions League final in 2015 and 2017 with the European championships in 2016.

Juventus this season won the their 34th Scudetto and 13th Italian Cup. The number 36 was held aloft on the bus by players as the club also counted the two titles of 2005 and 2006 which the club were stripped of for their role in the calciopoli match-fixing scandal. — AFP