Madeira

Two dead after car careers off cliff in Madeira early this morning

Two people in their 20s died early this morning when the car they were travelling in careered off a hillside in Porto Moniz, Madeira, into a ravine.  A third young person in the car was finally rescued late morning and airlifted to hospital. Reports describe the incident being called in by a father of one of the victims, who tracked the car via a GPS signal. It is not known at this point whether the father is a relative of one of the fatalities, or of the survivor. The car is understood to have fallen from a height of around 180 metres. UPDATE: The father is the father of the survivor, aged 19, who is now being treated in Funchal Hospital where his condition on entry was described as ‘critical’.