April 18, 2019 5:45 PM

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Madeira mourns 29 German bus crash victims

<span style="color: #222222;">In Portugal, three days of mourning began at Madeira today after 29 German tourists died in a bus mishap near Canico town. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Local authorities said, 50-odd tourists had left their hotel and were on their way to the regional capital Funchal when the accident occurred yesterday. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Prosecutors have opened a probe and the vice-president of the regional government Pedro Calado said it was premature to attribute the cause of the accident.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Madeira's tourism office said, German holidaymakers were the second largest group after British tourists to visit Madeira – known as the Pearl of the Atlantic and the Floating Garden – in 2017.</span><br />

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