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AP reports Portuguese officials say a bus carrying Dutch
tourists has crashed in southern Portugal, killing three of the tourists and
injuring 30 others and the Portuguese bus driver. Emergency team leader
Vitor Vaz Pinto said the bus went off a highway Wednesday night and rolled over
into a gully. Vaz Pinto said the bus
was carrying 33 Dutch tourists who had arrived at Faro airport in Portugal's
Algarve region, one of Europe's most popular vacation destinations.
He told reporters that
authorities had spoken to the driver but he declined to speculate on the
possible cause of the crash, which is under investigation.
Vaz Pinto said 156 rescue
workers, 101 emergency vehicles and two helicopters attended the scene.
AFP reports three Dutch tourists were killed and 31
people injured when their bus crashed in southern Portugal late Wednesday,
officials and media reports said.
The bus was carrying 33 tourists and a driver when it
skidded off the road and down an embankment on the A22 highway north of the
city of Albufeira in the southern Algarve region, according to Dutch and
Portuguese media reports.
One of the injured is in critical condition and two
others were seriously hurt, according to the Portuguese Lusa agency. The
injured were transferred to various local hospitals.
The crash occurred shortly after 2200 GMT on
Wednesday, as the bus was driving tourists to their various holiday
destinations after collecting them at the region’s Faro airport, according to
Dutch broadcaster NOS.
Dutch foreign ministry spokesperson Herman van
Gelderen said that “three Dutch tourists have been killed and 29 others, many
of them Dutch, have been injured.”
The
cause of the crash was not immediately clear, police said.
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