Shot a tourist bus in the Portuguese island of Madeira: at least 28 dead

At least 28 tourists, most of them German, died Wednesday in a bus crash on the Portuguese island of Madeira, after the vehicle had left the road and spilled into a house.

Sources from the regional government of Madeira confirmed EFE the number of victims who were traveling in a tourist bus victim of an accident in the city of Santa Cruz.

Filipe Sousa, Mayor of Santa Cruz, told local media that the dead are 17 women and 11 men.

The accident also left two dozen wounded, including the bus driver and tourist guide, of Portuguese nationality.

The wounded have been taken to Cruz de Carvalho Hospital and some will be evacuated to the mainland.

The President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, who had initially announced his intention to surrender on Wednesday on the island, decided to postpone his trip to leave the plane of the army. Portuguese air that he was going to use to transport the wounded.

The accident occurred around 18:30 in Santa Cruz, at the corner of a road, where, according to preliminary information, the bus driver lost control of his vehicle and got off the road.

Nineteen emergency vehicles were moved to the scene of the incident, including members of the civil defense, fire brigade and medical services.

After the transfer of the wounded, they began to remove the bodies in the area of ​​the accident, where a cordon of security preventing access to the press was put in place.