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At least 29 killed in Madeira when tourist bus veers off the road

Published on 18 Apr 2019 12:50:02 PM

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 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.

Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2019/04/18/tourist-bus-overturns-on-portugals-madeira-island-many-injured--lusa/