What to know about the streetcar derailment in Lisbon

A popular tram in the capital of Portugal killed 16 people and wounded 21 people, He said emergency serviceAuthorities call one of Lisbon’s worst tragedies in the last memories.

Official Details About accident It was still inadequate on Thursday morning in Lisbon city center. Authorities described leaving the rail as an accident on Wednesday, and the government said that various official investigations were ongoing.

Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas said, “The city needs answers,” he said.

Lisbon’s Civil Protection Agency said the death fee rose to 17 in the early hours on Thursday. He was later corrected to 16 and said there was a delay due to the reproduction of the existing information.

Witnesses, the local media, the tram between the evening hours at 18.00, looking down a hill, he said. A witness said the tram was toppled to a man on the sidewalk.

Elevador also seemed to have hit the sides of the yellow-white tram, known as Gloria, and hit a building where the road was twisted.

Streetcar running the company Carris, planned maintenance, he said.

Authorities refused to speculate whether a faulty brake or a cable may be out of the rail.

Authorities did not provide the names or nations of the dead by saying that their families would be informed first.

Authorities, 21 people were injured in the accident, he said. In addition to Portuguese citizens, two Germans, two Spanish, and each of them from France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Morocco, South Korea and Cape Verde.

“As we’ve never seen before, a tragedy, Moed Moedas said.

Prime Minister Luis Karadağ said, “This is tragedy… It goes beyond our borders,” he said.

One day on Thursday, Portugal was observing national mourning.

The government said in a statement, “a tragic accident ıcı caused irreparable loss of human life that mourned their families and terrified the whole country,” he said.

European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen also wished condolences.

He wrote to Portuguese X.

Technically called funicular, the tram is used by steel cables and the decreasing car helps to pull the other up. He can carry more than 40 people sitting and standing. A hill up and down on a road without curved, traffic was opened in 1885.

It is classified as a national monument and attracts most of millions of tourists visiting Lisbon every year. People usually wait on long lines for short driving covering a few hundred meters.