BREAKING: At least 28 people have been killed on the Portuguese island of Madeira after a bus they were travelling in toppled down a hill and onto a house.
The bus overturned in a coastal town on the Portuguese island of Madeira, officials say.
“There are fatalities but information on the number of victims is still not certain,” Filipe Sousa, the mayor of Canico where the accident happened, told the Lusa news agency.A tourist bus has crashed and overturned on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Picture: TwitterImages on Portuguese media showing an overturned white bus surrounded by firefighters.Around 50 people are thought to have been travelling on the coach at the time of the incident.
Local reports said the driver had lost control of the vehicle on a bend, careered off the road and crashed onto the top of a house. Distressing video has reportedly been posted on social media showed injured passengers being helped away from the scene by emergency responders.
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