Tourists killed in Madeira bus crash eNCA
Firemen help victims of a tourist bus that crashed in Caniço on the Portuguese island of Madeira.LISBON - At least 29 people, most of them German tourists, were killed and 27 others injured on Wednesday when their bus veered off a steep narrow road on the Portuguese island of Madeira, authorities said.
The German foreign ministry had set up a hotline and embassy staff were in close touch with local officials about the accident, a spokeswoman said. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa told SIC TV that some of the victims were from Madeira but most were German.
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