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One dead and 27 injured after bus with British passengers crashes in Canary Islands

On Friday at 1:15pm local time, a bus carrying 27 British tourists and a driver veered into a ravine on the GM-2 highway near San Sebastián de La Gomera in the Canary Islands, killing one man and injuring 27 others (three seriously, with one airlifted to Tenerife for treatment). Local emergency services are treating victims, while the British Embassy and UK Foreign Office stand ready to support affected British nationals and their families; Spanish police have launched an investigation into the crash's unestablished cause.