Madeira bus crash kills 29 after veering off road on bend and rolling down hill youtu.be

A tour bus carrying German tourists has crashed on Portugal’s Madeira Island, killing 29 people and injuring 28 others, local authorities said. The bus, which was carrying 55 people, rolled down a steep hillside after veering off the road on a bend east of the capital, Funchal, and struck at least one house, local mayor Filipe Sousa told cable news channel SIC. The dead included 18 women and 11 men, one of whom died later at a hospital, Mr Sousa told public broadcaster RTP. Portuguese foreign minister Augusto Santos Silva said preliminary reports he had received indicated all the dead were German. But Tomasia Alves, head of the Funchal hospital, said not all the victims had been identified and refused to confirm the nationality of the dead. Pedro Calado, vice president of Madeira’s regional government, said at a news conference that the injured, including the Portuguese driver and a local tour guide, were taken to a hospital. He did not say whether anyone who was not on the bus, including people on the roadside at the time of the accident, were among the victims. No children were among the dead and injured, Ms Alves said.