Most killed in Lisbon derailment are foreigners: police
Police in Portugal said that 11 of the 16 people killed when a funicular rail out of the rail was stranger, the first investigation report that examines what the popular Lisbon tourist charm was caused by the accident.
Among the dead, there was one of the five Portuguese citizens, three British, two South Korean, two Canadians and one of the United States of France, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States.
Police said that a German man, whom he thought died in Wednesday, was in Lisbon Hospital.
The parents of the man traveling from Germany were asked to identify the body of a man who was initially believed to be German.
When the parents stated that the man was not their sons, he said that a DNA test that confirms it.
Parents were later shown photos of the wounded and unidentified victims of the accident in various hospitals of the city.
Parents later recognized their sons in one of the photographs.
The prominent yellow-white amplifier was full of locals and international tourists on Wednesday evening when he released his rails.
Sixteen people were killed and 21 people were injured.
More than one agency is investigating that Prime Minister Luis Karadağ describes as “one of the biggest tragedies of our recent past”.
The government’s Air and Railway Accident Investigations Office said that it has completed its debris analysis and will publish a pre -technical report on Friday.
However, at the end of the day, the Portuguese news agency told Lusa that the report would be published only due to delays in the execution of procedures with other organs on Saturday.
It was not clear how much his first report would be explained.
Chief police researcher Nelson Oliveira said that a pre -police report with a wider scope is expected within 45 days.
Streetcar’s wreckage was removed from the scene overnight and the police were detained.
The French Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday, a woman with a French-Canada bilateral citizen is among the dead, he said.
Misericórdia, a Portuguese philanthropist organization on the top of the hill where the main Lisbon headquarters runs, said that four staff were killed.
National Health Service álvaro Santos, Spaniards, Israelites, Portuguese, Brazilians, Italians and French people were injured, he said.
“This tragedy… He goes beyond our borders,” he said with an address made on television from the official residence of Montenegro.
Last year, Lisbon hosted approximately 8.5 million tourists, and long -term people are usually a city street and a few hundred meters up and down and down and down and short and pitoresque journey.
Hundreds of people joined a gloomy audience in Lisbon’s magnificent Saint Dominic Church on Thursday evening.
President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas were among the participants who were dressed in black in the shelter on the candle show.
It is used by funicular steel cables and can carry more than 40 people.
Authorities refused to comment on whether a defective brake or a cable taken to enter a building where the descending tram has been bent.
“The city needs answers, dedi the mayor said that talking about possible reasons is” only speculation “.
He said that Carris opened his own investigation, as well as investigations of the company, police, public prosecutors and state transport experts operating Lisbon’s trams and buses.
Carris CEO Pedro de Brito Bogas said in a statement on Thursday, since 1914, the tram has been in service since 1914, a planned full maintenance program last year and the company carried out a 30 -minute visual review every day, he said.
Streetcar was last inspected nine hours before leaving the rail, but during a news conference, he did not say that he did not detail the visual examination or whether all cables were tested.
While the Lisbon Municipal Assembly stopped the operations of the three other funicular trams, the audits were performed immediately.
With DPA
