The first light above Lisbon revealed the crashed Gloria Funicular remains, its exclusive yellow strollers in the ruins after he drove off and crashed on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 23.
From 1885 On the cable railway, locals and visitors carried several hundred meters of steep streets, which binds a restaurant square, a live square for Portugal’s independence from Spain, to the Bairro Alto area.
But on Wednesday, as soon as the evening’s peak hour began, one of her two cars drove and sank into the street before entering the building, local media reported.
The footage was crazy of rescue effort because some passengers were pulled from one of the destroyed cars while others flew through the windows of another at large smoke.
A three -year -old boy was pulled from Germany from a trash from a police officer. The boy’s father died in the accident and his mother remains in critical condition, CNN Portugal reports.
At least 23 were injured in the accident, and the authorities told local media. Among the injured are five people in serious condition and an unknown number of foreign citizens, said the Portuguese National Institute for Emergency Medical Emergency.
The police officer passes past the remnants of the destroyed Gloria funicular drive from the rails in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2025. September 3 – Horacio Villaloba/Getty Images
Gloria funicular can carry more than 40 passengers and consist of two street cars connected with a steel cable. Each car acts as a counterweight to another.
One woman described that seeing one of the carts from the hill at full speed with “brakes”.
“It hit the building with a brutal force and collapsed like a cardboard box,” she told the Portuguese television channel SIC.
Teresa D’Vo was between the street that escaped from the tracks, fearing that the “uncontrolled” carriage would face the one below.
“But he fell around the bend and crashed into the building,” she told the local Obsermentor newspaper.
Another witness told the local media that the street car turned on a man on the sidewalk.
Emergency assistance officers said all victims were pulled out of debris in just over two hours, with dozens of crew members at the scene.
Scenic view of Gloria Funicular 2009 In July, before the accident. – Bruce Bennett/Getty Images/File
Sitra trade union wrote in social media that one of its members was among the murdered.
The local government says it is too early to determine the cause of the event.
However, the Lisbon Fire Firefighters reported that the cable, which was distanced from the line, causes the funicular losing control and crashed into a neighboring building, reports Oblictor.
When the extent of the disaster is revealed, the nation wakes up to three days of mourning on Thursday, declared by the government.
The abandoned events feature a book festival at Belém Palace, initially planned to run from Thursday to Sunday with literary signations, concerts and games.
Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa suggested that his family conditioner families, affected by the incident, called “the tragedy as we have never seen,” by Lisbon Mayor Carlos.
Firefighters work on the scene on the Gloria Funicular Neail website in 2025. September 3 – Horacio Villalobos/Getty Images
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, also sent her condolences, and the Prime Minister of the neighboring Spain, Pedro Sánchez, said he was “terrible for a terrible accident.”
The Lisbon City Council suspended other city street car operations and ordered immediate inspections, local media reported.
Police investigators were checking the place, and the Prosecutor General’s Office said it would open an official investigation as usual in public transport accidents.
This happens another accident on the same line in 2018. May, when one of the cars drove off due to wheel maintenance deficiencies, Reuters reported. No one was killed in that event.
Last year, about 8.5 million tourists held in Lisbon, while long lines of people usually form a short journey of Gloria.
According to tourism officials, about three million passengers distribute three million passengers each year each year.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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