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LAST UPDATE | 18 Apr 2019
THE DEATH TOLL from the bus crash on the Portugese island of Madeira has risen to 29 following the death of a woman from her injuries in hospital.
Last night, local mayor Filipe Sousa told reporters that up to 28 people had been killed in the accident, which took place in Canico, in the municipality of Santa Cruz, Madeira.
Around 50 people are believed to have been on board the bus at the time, which is understood to have been carrying a group of German tourists.
The accident took place at 6:30 pm and left a further 27 people injured.
Images from the scene showed the wreckage of the bus which appears to have come off the road and rolled over.
Portuguese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa confirmed that all of the victims were German and offered his condolences to those affected by the tragedy.
“I express the sorrow and solidarity of all the Portuguese people in this tragic moment, and especially for the families of the victims who I have been told were all German,” he told Portuguese television.
De Sousa was also expected to travel to Madeira overnight.
With reporting from Conor McCrave and - © AFP 2019
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sure if they say they’re Irish….get the Irish media on/ board they’ll be back in temple bar for christmas
@Frank Dubogovik: That’s a bit silly.
What ever happened to that Irish lad from the same brotherhood, who said he was going to fight and bring them all here.
@Gavin R:
He was treated like a prince on the Late Late…
This guy is a military General having come to power in a military coup backed by the CIA and US military. The courts are meer extensions of that military rule and these trials are a sham.
@Charles Williams: the alternative is not some shining utopia with freedom for all.
The alternative is the aftermath of Iraq and Libya.
The Muslim Brotherhood is not our friend. It’s no rational person, Muslim or otherwise friend.
He is keeping his country together.
@Fiasco99: “brutal dictatorships where the police torture suspects as standard procedure are fine with me because the alternative could be worse”
Jesus wept.
@Fiasco99: that alternative was voted in by democratic election. Just because you, or more importantly, the US Americans don’t like who the Egyptians voted for doesn’t mean they can set up a coup d’etat and irradicate democracy.
@Cormac Ó Braonáin:
Suggest you learn a bit about Morsi’s conduct when in office – ordinary Egyptians turned against him when it became clear that his intention was to destroy the very democracy that got him elected in the first place so that he couldn’t be challenged.
@Cormac Ó Braonáin:
This is a good starting point for you, I’ll let you do the rest for yourself:
https://cihrs.org/one-year-into-morsis-presidencymanifold-abuses-and-systematic-undermining-of-the-rule-of-law/?lang=en
@mattoid: cheers for the link. I’m guessing that article from 5 years ago before the Yanks irradicated democracy and put their puppet in power is the most recent one you’ve read from the very website you posted. Go ‘home’ on that site and you’ll see a picture of Egypt that is a lot worse under el-sisi.
@Cormac Ó Braonáin: horrible governments bent indestructible have been voted into many countries. I’m glad when they fall.
The brotherhood were democratically elected. But there was never going to be another election.
The brotherhood placed the Luxor masacare organiser as the governor of a state. They were more oppressive than Sisi I has been. They were a perverted regeneration that deserves to fall.
I am glad Egypt has avoided the chaos.
So much for free legal aid in Egypt.
@Jams O’ Donnell: the Yanks are in control there now. Irradicated democracy by setting up the coup d’etat. Now controls the border to Gaza and occupied Palestine.
Ah! Well! Only one was a real Bad(d)ie!!!
Its interesting how the democratically elected Brotherhood are the murderers and the coup leaders the lawmakers. If you believe in democracy you have to question this so called trial. If you believe in democracy you must respect the democratic vote. If you believe in demcoracy you must be against foreign interference in Egypt which overthrew the elected government.
We are continually being sold the story that there is only one democracy in the middle east. I wonder why?
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