Madeira bus crash – At least 28 dead after tourist coach topples off mountain road and crashes into house
AT least 28 people have died after a tourist coach careered off a mountain road and crashed into a house in Madeira.
The driver of the bus carrying 57 people lost control on a bend, skidded off the road and crashed on top of a building in the Portuguese holiday island which is popular with Brits, reports local media.
Portugal’s national news agency has confirmed that 28 people have died while local officials have confirmed that all the tourists on the bus were German nationals
Several more have reportedly been injured, including the driver and a tour guide, after the horror crash which happened at 6.30pm local time this evening.
Filipe Sousa, mayor of Santa Cruz in Canixo, also confirmed the death toll which includes 11 men and 17 women.
He told SIC TV: “I have no words to describe what happened. I cannot face the suffering of these people.”
The incident happened near a botanical garden in the hotel district in Canixo, a quiet coastal community in the south-east of Madeira known as Canixo de Baixo.
Dramatic pictures from the scene show an overturned white bus surrounded by firefighters.
SIC television said there were 19 ambulances at the scene of the deadly crash.
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