Three Brits confirmed dead in Lisbon funicular disaster | World | News
Three British dead were declared in the Lisbon Fünical Disaster. The accident, which caused 22 injuries, was seriously at around 18.00 on Wednesday.
Alvaro Santos Almeida, the wounded Spaniards, Israelis, Portuguese, Brazilians, Italians and French people, he said. The nations of those known to have died so far have been released by the authorities. Five people from Portuguese, two Korean, one person from one Switzerland and three from England.
Last year, Lisbon hosted approximately 8.5 million tourists, and the long human line is usually a city street for a short and picturesque trip of the tram and a few hundred meters above.
“This is tragedy… He goes beyond our borders, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said on his official residence,“ One of the greatest tragedies of our recent past ”. Portugal observed a national mourning day on Thursday.
After MORTEM, the entire 16 exams were concluded on Thursday, but the identification of three victims, Francisco Corte-Real, President of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine, required access to a joint news conference or access to dental records or family DNA.
Electric tram, also known as funicular, is used by steel cables and can carry more than 40 people. On Thursday, the authorities took a photo and pulled a cable under the rails climbing one of the steep hills of the Portuguese capital.
Authorities refused to comment on whether a defective brake or a cable taken to enter a building on which the road was bent.
Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas said in a statement on TV, “The city needs answers,” he said, and adding that it is “only speculation” to talk about possible reasons.
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