Lisbon in shock after funicular crash leaves 15 dead
Portugal, a great tourist attraction in the capital, 140 -year -old Gloria funiks in the rail of 15 people in the shock after the death.
According to emergency services, five people were taken to hospital in a serious situation.
Authorities were among those killed in an accident around 18:05, but the authorities could not be verified.
Lisbon’s Mayor Carlos Moedas visited the hospital on Wednesday night and called “a tragic moment for the city”. The Portuguese government, which will host the mayor at a cabinet meeting on Thursday, declared national mourning one day.
The country’s president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said “sympathy and solidarity with families affected by this tragedy”.
Police and other emergency workers, various investigations about the incident – funicular operating the company, the National Transportation Safety Authority and the penalty police – spent hours at the scene.
[Reuters]
Lisbon’s public transportation operator Carris’s boss visited the accident late on Wednesday, and the company made a statement that daily, weekly and monthly checks were held when four -year and temporary biennial care was required.
However, reports from eyewitnesses claimed that the brake system on the cable funicular had failed and sent it to a building and sent it to a building.
Authorities, a few people should be released after being stuck in the wreckage.
It is unclear how many people are on the ship during a cable railway accident near Avenida.
The images, widely shared on social media, showed that the bright yellow car was overthrown and almost completely destroyed. Since people look like smoke, they can be seen as a pedestrian.
A witness told the Portuguese newspaper that the vehicle was “out of control without braking”.
“We all started to run because we thought [the carriage] He would hit the place below, Teres Teresa D’Avó said.
“But he fell around the bend and hit a building.”
Another, Portuguese TV channel SIC’ye a funicular building “full -speed” building hit a building, he said.
“He hit a ruthless strong building and collapsed like a cardboard box; no brake,” the woman said.
Lisbon officials say it is too early to determine the cause of this incident.
However, over the route of the railway, Oberyador reported that a cable was loosened and caused him to lose control and collide with a nearby building.
European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen sent condolences to the families of the victims.
Spain’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez said, “he was terrified of a terrible accident.”
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Funicular is a type of railway system that moves up and down the upright slopes.
Two cars on Gloria on the funicular are strengthened with electric motors. They are connected to the opposite ends of one shipping cable, ie, as one moves downhill, allows the weight to remove the other and to rise and descend at the same time.
Gloria Fünikül is one of the most famous landscapes and touristic places in Lisbon. It was opened in 1885 and was electrical after thirty years.
Iconic yellow vehicles are an important part of a hilly city as Lisbon. Snake towards most of the cobblestone streets.
The collapsed special travels from the restaurant to about 275 m (900ft) to the Pitoreresque, the Pitorersque of a square in the middle of Lisbon, to the Pitoresque, the Albanian pavement streets – or the high neighborhood takes only three minutes to travel.
He and the other Funikules are used by Lisbon inhabitants, but they are extremely popular among tourists – and at the end of the summer, the Portuguese capital is really busy.
