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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 people, including schoolchildren and teenagers, were killed when a bus crashed into a ravine on Fogo island in Cape Verde on Saturday night. The crash occurred on a mountain road in northern Fogo when the bus veered off the road and plummeted about 30 meters down. Inforpress, a national news agency, reported that many of those on board were primary and secondary school students, who were participating in an annual trip organized privately by the driver. The incident has left at least several injured passengers hospitalized, including some schoolchildren.

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At least 25 people, mostly teenagers and children, were killed in a bus crash on Fogo Island in Cape Verde. The accident occurred when a passenger bus, carrying 32 passengers, veered off the road and plunged about 30 metres into a steep ravine on the Campanas de Cima route in northern Fogo. Many of those killed were primary and secondary school students who were on an annual trip privately arranged by the driver. Several others were injured, with some seriously hurt. The cause of the crash is still unknown, but Cape Verde's government has announced two days of mourning.

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Cape Verde's Fogo Inforpress LISBON West Africa

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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.

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2026-09-06 · The Straits Times

At least 25 killed in bus crash on Cape Verde's Fogo island, agency says · assertive framing

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

agency → kill → island

Inforpress → kill → 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. asserted

it → occur → ravine

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

agency → say → board

Several injured passengers were taken to Sao Francisco de Assis Regional Hospital on Fogo. asserted

passengers → take → Fogo

Education officials said the outing was not organised by local schools but was an annual trip privately arranged by the driver, who was among those killed, Inforpress said. asserted

Inforpress → say → those