The tourist bus has driven off the road – several dead

"Coach has driven off the road – several dead"

"the Mayor: Everyone is a German citizen"

"the tour bus drove the curvy road and voltade perform the mountainside in turistparadiset Madeira."

"at Least 29 people are dead."

"– I can't find the words for what has happened, " says the mayor Filipe Sousa. "

"the 55 passengers and a tour guide were on the bus yesterday evening drove up in the mountains near the town of Canixo de Baixo on the tourist island of Madeira, according to local media."

"the Bus was reportedly on its way to the island's capital Funchal when the accident occurred. The tourist bus went off the road in a curve and voltade several times before it stopped against a house along the mountainside."

"the Mayor Filipe Sousa from nearby Santa Cruz said that eleven men and 18 women died in the crash. According to him, all from Germany."

"– I can't find the words for what has happened, " says Filipe Sousa to the local SIC."

"a Further 22 people injured in the crash, writes local news agency Lusa. It is not known how serious their injuries are."

"Local media on the site describing the accident and the sequence of events as horrendous."

"the Bus should have voltat down the mountainside and the roof of the bus was torn partly off. According to the German Picture flew passengers ”dolls” out of the bus."

"The first alarm came at 18.30-the time and at least 14 ambulances were sent to the site. The injured were taken to two different hospitals on the island, three with life-threatening injuries."

"the bus driver and tourist guide, both of which are Portuguese, was injured also in the crash, but it is unclear how severe their injuries are."

" We have our hands full. Many injured in the accident were brought here, many of them are severely damaged, " a spokesman for one of the hospitals to the Picture."

"Two of the victims may according to the civil protection on-the-spot be two Portuguese pedestrians."

"On the images seen injured passengers get help away from the scene of the accident by emergency personnel. Several of the injured were forced to wait for help at the roadside."

"Regionalpolitikern Roberto Almada describes the area where the bus went off the road as difficult disaster."

"– Just before the area where the bus drove by, it is a very sharp curve that goes from the west to the east. Where there have been many accidents in the past. It is a very difficult place for drivers, especially for drivers of larger vehicles, " he says to the Daily Mail."

"Aftonbladet was last night in contact with the foreign MINISTRY, then, there were no reports of injured swedes."

"– But we are investigating it via the embassy in Lisbon, said Lina Eidmark, press secretary at MINISTRY for foreign affairs."