THE GUARDIAN Luís Montenegro describes incident, in which 16 people died, as ‘one of the biggest tragedies in our recent history’
Portugal’s prime minister, Luís Montenegro, has promised a swift and thorough investigation to determine the causes of the funicular railway crash that killed 16 people and injured 21 others in Lisbon, describing the incident as “one of the biggest tragedies in our recent history”.
Public prosecutors are already looking into the crash, which happened on the Portuguese capital’s famous Glória funicular just after 6pm on Wednesday. The city’s mayor has also asked Carris, the municipal public transport company that operates the service, to investigate.
All those killed when one of the funicular’s two cars derailed and crashed into a building were adults, according to Margarida Castro Martins, the head of the city’s civil protection agency.
She said the victims’ families would be informed before any names or nationalities were released, but confirmed that those injured in the crash included Portuguese people as well as two Germans, two Spaniards and one person each from Canada, Cape Verde, France, Italy, Morocco, South Korea and Switzerland.
Carris later said that one of its workers, a brake operator, had died in the crash. » | Sam Jones in Madrid, Helen Livingstone and agencies | Thursday, September 4, 2025
