Portugal declared the day of national mourning after at least 17 people were killed, and 21 was injured when one of the famous Lisbon Clauses jumped out of the rails and hit the building on Wednesday night, passes Guardian.
An emergency spokesman said that he was among the dead and several foreign nationals, but he did not identify victims or discovered their citizenship.
An injured persons, three of whom are severely injured, were treated in several hospitals in the Lisbon region. Two of the hardest injured victims were passed in the hospital during the night, which increased the initial number of the deaths from 15 to 17.
The teams of the pathologist from the National Institute of Forensics worked all night on autopsy all night, officials said.
Among the injured are Portugal citizens, Germany and Spain
BBC He is transmitting that Castro Martins, an emergency service officer, said authorities await more information about the victims, including details of their age and nationality.
So far, the famous nationalities of the injured:
4 Portuguese citizens, 2 Germans, 2 Spaniards, 1 Korean, 1 Canadian, 1 Italian, 1 French, 1 Swiss, 1 Moroccan and 1 citizen of the Cape Verde.
There are 12 women and seven men between 24 and 65 among the injured people, and a three-year-old child.
She says that the authorities have no more specific information about all the victims, but that there are seven men and eight women, those aliens among the killings.
Portugal is in shock after 15 people were killed in popping from the rails 140 years of the old funicular Gloria, one of the main tourist attractions in Lisbon. Another 18 people were transported to the hospital, five of whom in severe, were confirmed by emergency services, BBC New …
City symbol
Manuel Leal, Leader Fectrans, told local television that the workers on Gloria line, once of the symbols of the city, complained about the rope of the cable car, which made it harder to say whether it was the cause of the accident.
The company in charge of the CARRIS in a statement stated that “all maintenance protocols were conducted”, including monthly and weekly maintenance programs and daily inspections.
Two cabins, each capacity of about 40 people, are attached to the opposite ends of the traction, and the traction is achieved by electric motors on the cabins that equate each other. As it seems, the rope has cracked when it relented the braking system on the cabin, and jumped out of the rail in the curve, striking into the building on the corner.
The cabin at the bottom moved a few meters ago, but it seemed unborn, while the recording of passers have shown several passengers as they jump through the windows. The line, which is opened in 1885. year, connects the center of Lisbon at Restauradores Square with the fourth Bairro Alto, known for its nightlife.
According to the data of the city administration, the Gloria line has been transported by about three million people per year.
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