One dead and 27 in hospital after bus carrying tourists crashes in Canary Islands

Awful news.

The crash happened at 1.15pm local time when a bus carrying British tourists crashed into a ravine on the GM-2 highway in San Sebastian de La Gomera.

Three of those injured are in critical condition.

There were 28 people on bus. 24 adults, three children, and a driver.

All of the passengers were British and are believed to have been heading for a boat tour.

The person killed in the crash was male.

Local officials said: "Emergency health services attended to the 28 occupants of the bus, 27 tourists of British nationality and the driver.

"One male deceased is confirmed and 27 injured of varying degrees of severity, three of them serious, transferred to the Hospital Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe."