11 killed in Portuguese bus crash The bus carrying 44 people, among them children, from Portalegre to the tourist site of Santa Maria da Feria in the north of the country, careered off a rain soaked road and down a steep slope near the town of Serta. The driver survived the accident without serious injury and the four children on the bus were treated for only light injuries at a hospital in Coimbra. Five of those injured are described as being in a serious condition with head and chest injuries, said doctors at the two hospitals where survivors were being treated. Ana Paula Milho, the wife of the bus driver who was seated in the front seat next to their young daughter, described the terrifying crash. "My husband lost control of the bus as we went round a curve, there was a crash and then we started rolling down the ravine," she told Portugal's Diario de Noticias newspaper outside Coimbra University Hospital. More than 260 people participated in the rescue operation, including firefighters and paramedics, and two rescue helicopters were scrambled. Emergency service personnel had to use ropes to reach the bus from the road.