Twenty-nine German tourists were killed on Wednesday when a bus crashed on the Portuguese island of Madeira.
Televised images showed the bus had spun off the road, apparently having flipped several times, before crashing into a house at the bottom of a slope.
"Horrible news comes to us from Madeira," a German government spokesman tweeted after the deadly crash.
"Our deep sorrow goes to all those who lost their lives in the bus accident, our thoughts are with the injured," he added.
Filipe Sousa, mayor of Santa Cruz where the accident happened, said 17 women and 11 men were killed in the crash, with another 21 injured.
