Falling tree kills 13 during Portugal eremite festival
The Portuguese island of Madeira. PHOTO: AFP.
LISBON: Thirteen people were dejected to genocide and 49 harmed Tuesday when a 200-year-old ash tree fell on them during a eremite festival on a Portuguese island of Madeira, doctors said.
A dozen people, 4 of them children, were severely injured, Miguel Reis, arch surgeon during a sanatorium in Madeira’s collateral Funchal, told a press conference. Four of a harmed are foreigners, with French, German, Dutch and Hungarian citizenship, he said.
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Tragedy struck during noon when a immeasurable tree defeated into a throng collected nearby Funchal for a Lady of a Mount festival in honour of Madeira’s enthusiast saint, Mary. Amateur video posted online showed a tree outstanding down, call panicked worshippers to flee.
Catholics around a universe symbol Assumption Day on Aug 15, that according to Christian tradition outlines a Virgin Mary’s climb into Heaven. The festival in Madeira draws immeasurable crowds each year from a island and beyond. Worshippers had collected to light candles in a botanical garden around 5 kilometres (three miles) from executive Funchal.
“We listened a enormous sound and afterwards a tree fell where people were lighting candles. People sitting on a benches nearby a fountain were also hit,” declare Domingos Perestrelo told a SIC Noticias TV station.
“There was a large panic – it happened in a center of mass, around a half-hour before a start of a procession. There were a lot of people there.”
The fountain is surrounded by several high trees aged a hundred years or more. Authorities have non-stop an review into what happened. The mayor of Funchal, Paulo Cafofo, pronounced a tree had not been upheld by cables since it was not deliberate to be during risk.
A confidence fringe was set adult around a scene, where disturbed worshippers collected watchful anxiously for news and charity assistance to rescue teams. Miguel Albuquerque, boss of a informal government, announced 3 days of mourning.
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa offering his condolences to families and friends of a victims, while President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa arrived during a stage to uncover support for a bereaved. Local football group Maritimo Funchal voiced a “profound unhappiness during a tragedy in Monte”.
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Madeira, a renouned traveller end interjection to a thespian coastlines and peaceful climate, is a largest of several Portuguese islands in a north Atlantic Ocean. Located in a volcanic archipelago off a seashore of Morocco, it is disposed to floods as good as landslides — that in Feb 2010 left some-more than 50 people dead, with Funchal badly hit.
Last year a Lady of a Mount festival was cancelled due to a timberland fire. Madeira has a race of some-more than 250,000, a immeasurable infancy of them Catholic.
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