Witnesses describe fatal Lisbon funicular crash
Immediately after 18:00 on Wednesday, Lisbon’s famous Gloria Fünikül a car came to a bend of a street with a steep parquet parking park, hit a building, and a wrinkled glasses, an eyewitness.
“He hit a ruthless strong building and collapsed like a cardboard box.”
The police are still investigating the cause of the cauldron of 20 more wounded near Lisbon, some of which killed at least 17 people and some of them in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon in the Portuguese capital.
The video confirmed by the BBC shows the collapsed yellow-white train on the bend of a wrinkled hill against the building, and another train stopped at the bottom. People are moving towards the scene of the accident.
Helen Chow, who came from Canada and visited Lisbon, was at the base of the Gloria Hill, where the trams rose to the Bairro Alto region when he said he had a screaming loudly.
A tram “was a hard stop, I saw a black debris, I heard that the tram screamed … The driver ran to open the doors to the tram entrance,” he said.
“People jumped out of that tram window … Just like this, I saw the event hit the building next to the subway restaurant.”
“It was terrible … The voice wasn’t like anything I’ve ever heard.” “I was shaken.”
Mrs. D’Avó, Portugal newspaper observation, said the vehicle “brakeless, out of control,” he said.
“We all started to run because we thought [the carriage] He would hit the place below, “he said.” But he fell around the bend and hit a building. “
Eric Packer, who visited Lisbon on holiday only from the United States, said that he met with his friends by taking a cable car to the BBC and took photos on 18:00 and 18:01, but decided to return to his hotels instead.
They walked about 60 meters and heard a high collision noise like a rock, as if a casting truck had dropped a lot of rocks at 18:02.
They came out of the street about 45 meters (148ft) and walked back to see what happened. At first, he thought it was the falling train until he returned to the other train and realized the “magnitude of what happened”.
His photo shows the yellow-white train, a metal confusion in the corner of the yellow street under the other train, under a metro restaurant sign.
“People were walking and running to try and help,” he said. “Our terrible tragedy and thoughts and prayers go to families and survivors.”
