What we know about deadly crash

Glória Füniküler Railway, a car in one of Lisbon’s iconic touristic places, came out of the rail on Wednesday and collapsed. Popular tram -like transportation, steep slopes are designed to travel up and down.

Portuguese officials confirmed that 16 people were killed and increased the mortality rate that revised an earlier figure to 17.

It is not yet clear what causes the carrier to come out of the rail, but local media reports say he suspects a cable error.

An investigation into the reasons for the accident continues.

Here is everything we know so far.

On Wednesday, September 3, the city’s Avenida was also off the rail around 18:15 (17:15 GMT) near Liberdade Boulevard.

More than 60 rescue personnel and 22 vehicles were deployed to the scene.

Authorities say it was too early to determine what caused the accident, but the Portuguese newspaper observation said that a cable was loosened along the route of the railway and caused it to lose control and collide with a building.

As the smoke swallowed the area, people could be seen while fleeing the scene.

Images and images, surrounded by emergency response teams, lying on the Stone Stone Stone, shown a wrinkled yellow car.

Some people were stuck in the wreckage and had to be released by emergency workers.

The tour guide Marianna Figueiredo witnessed the accident and was among those who tried to save people.

“People began to jump through the windows in the funicular under the hill.” He said.

“Then I saw one more [further up] This is already crushed. I started climbing the hill to help people, but when I got there, the only thing I could hear was silence. “

He said that what he witnessed last night was “very difficult to define”. “It was very bad. A great tragedy.”

Emergency services gave 17 deaths on Thursday, but Prime Minister Luís Montenegro said that 16 of them died.

The reports in Portugal attributed the error in the burden of death to a repetitive record of a victim in a hospital.

At that time, the Füniklers remained uncertain information about who driving and who could be injured on the street, but at least 20 people were injured.

Among those who were taken to the hospital, four Portuguese, two Germans, two Spanish, one cape verdean, a Canadian, an Italian, a French person, a Switzerland, a Moroccan and a Korean, the city’s municipal civil protection service Portugal’s Loss News Agency.

André Jorge Gonçalves Marques, an employee of Carris, the public transportation operator of the city, is among the dead.

“With Carris in 15, he performed his duties with Extrets,” the company said. He said.

The Portuguese media reported that a three -year -old child was treated in one of the Lisbon hospitals, while the mother of the pregnant child was transferred to a birth unit.

Glória Fünikül can carry about 40 passengers and are extremely popular among tourists, but it is also very important for the residents of the city to help them travel up and down on the rugged streets of Lisbon.

However, it is not known how many people were on the ship during the accident.

A funicular is a railway system that moves up and down the upright slopes, and in Lisbon, it is a very important way to wander the steep, Albanian -paved streets of the city.

Funicular Railways of the City – Glória, Lavra, Bica and Gracha – are a popular tourist attraction center such as snakes such as snakes.

Glória opened in 1885 and became electrical after thirty years.

275m (900FT) is traveling from the restaurants of Central City to the Pitoresque streets of Bairro Alto. The journey takes only three minutes.

The two cars on the Glória road were attached to the opposite ends of a transport cable taken by electric motors.

When a transport moves downhill, it removes the weight and allows them to rise and descend at the same time and reduces energy needs.

The second, robust transport can only be seen at a meter away from the wreck below the hill.

Carris regretted the accident, “to determine the causes of this accident” opened an investigation, he said.

The company said expression That it complies with “all maintenance protocols”:

• General maintenance took place every four years and was last held in 2022

• Temporary repairs were made every two years, the last one took place in 2024

• Monthly and weekly maintenance programs and daily inspections “meticulously followed”

Company President Pedro Bogas said, “Everything was meticulously respected,” he said, and added that the funicular care has been carried out by a contractor for the last 14 years.

“We have strict protocols, excellent professionals for many years, and we need to go under what happened.”

While the country observed a national mourning day on Thursday, the Mayor of Lisbon Carlos Moedas declared a three -day mourning in the capital.

Moedas, who sent it to X, said: “I extend my condolences to all my families and friends of the victims. Lisbon is mourning.”

Portugal President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said he regretted the “death and serious injuries caused by the accident.

Neighboring Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said, “he was horrified by a terrible accident.”

“All our love and solidarity with the families of the victims and the people of the Portuguese in this difficult moment,” he wrote.

European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen sent “condolences to the families of the victims”.

BBC Radio 4 in an interview with the Today program, the President of the Lisbon Residents Association Fabiana Pavel, said the community is shocked, he said.

Füniküler said that it is an important public transportation vehicle for those living in Bairro Alto, and that “especially for people with mobility because they allow them to climb to a steep hill.”

“There could be parents who had children returning from school during the accident.”

Ms. Pavel added that the cable car was disproportionately used by tourists, that the locals could not use the service as a means of transportation, because it has become a touristic attraction. “

Flags outside the European Parliament in Brussels fly half a pole to mark the mourning day of Portugal.

“The tragic accident in Alevador also shook Europe deeply,” the President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, “Alevador.