Rescuers say there is little hope for more survivors under the Morandi bridge, where nearly 40 vehicles dropped 45 m (148 ft) in Tuesday's collapse.

The cause is not yet known, but there have been calls for the bosses of the company that operates the bridge to resign.

The survivors have also been remembering the horror of the collapse of the bridge.

Hundreds of firefighters worked during the night with lifting equipment, climbing equipment and sniffer dogs to try to locate more survivors. But a spokeswoman for the Italian Red Cross told that only bodies had been found.

The local prefecture raised the death toll Wednesday morning to 39, 37 of them identified. At least three children lost their lives.

There are 16 people in treatment at the hospital, 12 of them in serious condition.

Some 440 people have been evacuated from the area amid fears that other parts of the bridge may fall.

The Morandi Bridge, built in the 1960s, is located on the A10 toll road, an important conduit for freight traffic from local ports, which also serves the Italian Riviera and the southeastern coast of France.

Who are the victims?

Families in their cars, people who go to work, people who go on vacation. It could take many hours to find out exactly how many people died and identify them.

Counselors are available at emergency centers to help family members.

Some of the names of the victims have appeared in the Italian media.

A family of three died after his car fell off the bridge: Roberto Robbiano, 44, Ersilia Piccinino, 41, and his little son Samuel.



Amateur footballer Andrea Cerulli died while driving to work.



Two workers from Amiu municipal environmental company, who worked in a truck under the viaduct and were crushed.



Luigi Matti Altadonna, 35, Juan Carlos Pastenes, 64, and Elisa Bozzo, 34, were named by La Stampa as some of the victims.



Chilean and French citizens were among the dead.



What have the survivors been saying?



One of the most telling testimonies was the one of Davide Capello, of 33 years, ex-archer of Cagliari, of the Serie A Italian.

His car fell 30 meters in the collapse, but it stopped in a pocket between the columns and survived.

"I could get out ... I do not know how my car was not crushed, it looked like a scene from a movie, it was the apocalypse," he said.

Valentina Galbusera, 43, a doctor, told La Stampa: "The bridge fell in front of me, not 20 meters away, I avoided the collapse in just a couple of seconds, I felt that the bridge was shaking and I tried to reverse it. of the car and I started running. "

The driver of the Moroccan truck, Afifi Idriss, 39, told Agence France-Presse: "I saw the green truck in front of me stop and then back off, so I also stopped, locked the truck and ran."

On Wednesday, he brought an angry response to the collapse of Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli.

He asked the top management of Autostrade per L'Italia, which oversees the maintenance, to resign, alleging that he did not fulfill his contractual obligations. He said he would try to fine the company heavily and revoke his operational license.

The company repeated that it had monitored the bridge quarterly, as required by law.

The Genoa Prosecutor's Office has already opened an investigation into a possible homicide by negligence. The chief prosecutor blamed "human error."