Tour bus carrying German tourists crashes on Portugal's Madeira Island killing 29 people and injuring 27 others
People stand next to the wreckage of a bus after an accident in Canico, in the Portuguese Island of Madeira, April 17, 2019
The white tourist bus – which was carrying 55 passengers and a tour guide in addition to the driver – overturned in a residential area in the coastal town of Canico at around 6:30 p.m. , its mayor, Filipe Sousa, told reporters.The driver reportedly lost control of the bus on a sloping road and the vehicle plunged down, overturning next to a house, according Portuguese news agency Lusa.SIC TVHe said the tourists on the bus were all German but some pedestrians might have been hit by the bus.
From the 28 injured initially taken to the hospital, one German tourist did not survive the injuries, bringing the death toll to 29, a hospital spokesman told a news conference on Wednesday evening. A regional civil protection official said the tourists involved in the accident were aged between 40 and 50 years old.Madeira is a popular tourist destination. The peak season is during the summer but it also gets many visitors around Easter.
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