Teaching assistant tells of ordeal on hijacked Milan school bus A teaching assistant who was on board an Italian school bus when it was hijacked by the driver, with 51 children on board, tells of her ordeal, saying he 'pointed a knife to her throat' and made her pour gasoline on the seats, before he torched the bus. SOUNDBITES of Tiziana Magarini, teaching assistant at Vailati secondary school in Crema