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		</div><p>A tour bus carrying German tourists has crashed on Portugal’s Madeira Island, killing 29 people and injuring 28 others, local authorities said.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>The dead included 18 women and 11 men, one of whom died later at a hospital, Mr Sousa told public broadcaster RTP.</p>
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<p>Portuguese foreign minister Augusto Santos Silva said preliminary reports he had received indicated all the dead were German.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<figure id="attachment_130434" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-130434" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/E40234DA-59EA-495D-8DD1-014106309095.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-130434" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/E40234DA-59EA-495D-8DD1-014106309095.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="340" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-130434" class="wp-caption-text">Emergency services attend the scene after the crash</figcaption></figure>
<p>No children were among the dead and injured, Ms Alves said.</p>
<p>She said at a news conference that two of the injured were Portuguese and the rest were foreign, but she declined to give further details.</p>
<p>The mayor said the bus was carrying a group of German tourists.</p>
<p>The German foreign ministry, in a tweet, expressed “great shock” at the accident.</p>
<p>“We must unfortunately assume that victims are from Germany,” it said.</p>
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<p>Portuguese prime minister Antonio Costa said in a tweet that he had sent condolences to German chancellor Angela Merkel. “I learned of this tragic accident in Madeira with deep sorrow,” he said.</p>
<p>Ms Merkel’s spokesman said “terrible news is reaching us from Madeira”.</p>
<p>Steffen Seibert said on Twitter that “we are in deepest sorrow over all those who lost their lives in the bus crash.” He added: “Our thoughts are with the injured.”</p>
<p>Portugal’s air force said it had three aircraft on standby in case any injured needed to be taken to hospitals on the Portuguese mainland, almost 600 miles away.</p>
<p>But Funchal hospital’s clinical director, Dr Pedro Freitas, said transfers were not necessary. Madeira’s regional government announced three days of mourning, when flags on public buildings are flown at half-staff.</p>
<p>Residents said the weather was fine at the time of the accident, which happened in daylight in the early evening.</p>
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<p>Calado, the regional government’s vice president, said the bus was five years old and had passed its mandatory inspections for roadworthiness.</p>
<p>Authorities said they were investigating the cause of the crash.</p>
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