At least 25 people, most of them teenagers, were killed when a passenger bus crashed on Fogo Island in Cape Verde.
The Associated Press reported the crash happened Saturday on the Campanas de Cima route, a mountainous road on the island, and involved a passenger bus. Several people were injured.
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Reuters reported the bus veered off a mountain road in northern Fogo late Saturday and plunged nearly 100 feet into a ravine. Many of those on board were primary and secondary school students.
Several injured passengers were taken to São Francisco de Assis Regional Hospital on Fogo. Authorities had not determined the cause of the crash.
President José Maria Pereira Neves called the crash “a great catastrophe” in a statement on his Facebook page. Neves said visiting the site broke his heart.
“It is an irreparable loss, a part of the future that is torn apart: the majority of dead victims are young and adolescent,” he said.
Neves said seven bodies were buried shortly after the crash because of their condition.
Education officials said the outing was not organized by local schools but was an annual trip privately arranged by the driver, who was among those killed.
Neves and other officials were expected to visit the island Sunday, according to a local news agency.
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