The tourists killed in a bus collision in Namibia were from Lesa da Palmeira. The families have already been contacted.

Two Portuguese tourists, women in their 70s, from Lesa da Palmeira, died in a car crash on the C14 road that links the fishing town of Walvis Bay in eastern Namibia, the Foreign Office confirmed. CM.

This was stated by the Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, José Cesario. CM that the families of the tourists have already been contacted and the transfer process will proceed as usual. He also said that the consulates of the two countries have already talked to each other.

According to Manuel Coelho, councilor for the Portuguese communities of the capital Windhoek, the accident occurred between 15:00 and 16:00 local time, less than an hour’s drive from Lisbon, in the Quiseb Valley, on the way to the largest sand dunes of Sossus Vlei in the Namibian desert.

The accident involved two buses carrying 40 tourists, one of which was carrying at least 22 Portuguese tourists, a Portuguese adviser said.

According to the diary Windhoek observer – Confirming only one death – Emergency services say the bus carrying more than two dozen Portuguese and other foreigners was struck along a road leading to the Kuiseb River Gorge, an important tourist attraction.

“We have sent a team of emergency services to the scene, including our investigators,” said police spokesman Erongo, quoted by the newspaper. Namibian. However, communicating with members on the ground was difficult because there was no cell phone network in the region.

Local press reports that the bus collided with a minibus, overturned and collided with an open-top jeep.

The region, just south of Namibia’s capital Windhoek, attracts many tourists from all over the world, who go on safaris further north to Etosha Park, as well as to the areas of Walvis Bay, the starting point for excursions to the mythical Skeleton Coast. and Namib-Naukluft National Park, home to the oldest desert on Earth.