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At least 25 killed in bus crash on Cape Verde’s Fogo island, agency says

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At least 25 killed in bus crash on Cape Verde’s Fogo island, agency says

At least 25 people, many of them schoolchildren ​and teenagers, were killed when ‌a bus plunged into a ravine on Fogo, one of Cape Verde's ​islands in the Atlantic Ocean ​off the coast of West ⁠Africa, national news agency Inforpress ​reported on Sunday.

The crash occurred on ​a mountain road in northern Fogo late on Saturday, when the bus veered ​off the road and plunged ​about 30 metres into a steep ravine, ‌it said.

Many of those on board were primary and secondary school students, the agency said.

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