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| A bus carrying over 50 tourists on the Portuguese island of Madeira overturned and slid down a hill. Local media report as many as 28 fatalities, and there are fears that number may rise. | |
| The bus slid off the road a around 6:30 pm local time, near the town of Canico in the municipality of Santa Cruz, on the eastern side of the island. | |
| “There are fatalities but information on the number of victims is still not certain,” Filipe Sousa, head of the municipality of Santa Cruz, told the Lusa news agency. | |
| Sousa later told the Lisbon-based Jornal de Negocios that 11 men and 17 women, all German tourists, were dead. | |
| More than a dozen ambulances and other rescue vehicles are to the scene, near the Quinta Splendida hotel and botanical gardens in Canico. Rescuers continue to pulls victims out of the broken-up bus, amid fears that the death toll might rise. | |
| Located in the mid-Atlantic, off the coast of Africa, the Madeira archipelago is a popular tourist destination, with 1.5 million visits every year. | |
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