Boy, 3, pulled from funicular crash that has shocked Portugal

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Boy, 3, pulled from funicular crash that has shocked Portugal

2025-09-05 10:33:53

Alice CodyA major international correspondent, in Lisbon

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There is a clear feeling of shock on the faces of people who look at the wreckage of a coating accident in the Portuguese capital, where 16 people died-but a three-year-old German boy was among the survivors.

He was pulled from the cart, and his mother was among more than 20 others who were injured.

Police say that Portugal, South Korea, Switzerland, Canada, France, Britain, Ukraine and the United States are among the dead. The police confirmed that the German citizen, who was said to have died in the accident, was alive in the hospital.

It is still not clear the cause of the accident. The public transport operator in the capital, Carris, said that all advanced pieces will be examined and that it has launched an independent investigation.

The political elite of Portugal appeared in the Church of St. Dominic on Thursday evening for a service that was held in honor of the killing.

Outside the church, people called for a comprehensive investigation of what happened. “We need people to know that they are safe here,” one of the women said while others nodded.

“I will not take the penis again”: Watch at the moment of the accident

One of the local residents told the BBC that she was “still treating” what happened while she was walking at the site of the accident, as the wreckage of the Monnik who went out of its path and collided with a building on the ground.

She said, “It is very sad.”

Others gathered and took pictures of the debris, or stood silently. Two Singapore tourists said that they were to ride the spacecraft race on Wednesday, but they changed their plans at the last minute.

“It is frightening … who knows, maybe we were on this,” one of them said. “It changes your view of life. You just don’t expect something like this.”

People began to jump from windows.

Tourist guide Mariana Fiorido was among those at the scene on Wednesday evening. She said she was shocked by what she witnessed.

Ms. Figueireo said she had heard a big accident and rushed to the scene, near the place where Tuktuk was stalled.

“In five seconds I was there,” she said. “People started jumping from the windows inside the loyalty at the bottom of the hill. Then I saw another one [further up] This was already crushed.

“I started climbing the hill to help people, but when I got there, the only thing I heard was silence.”

Ms. Figueireo said that when she and others began to pull the ceiling from the roof, they saw the bodies of death inside.

She said she had seen children being rescued, tried to help people with broken bones and calm those with distress.

“Many people were crying around me. They were very afraid. I was trying to calm them.”

EPA satellite map in Lisbon Central shows the site. Namses show that the accident occurred near the restaurant square. The hill in which the accident occurred appears, where you can see the acute gradient. There is a police strip across the scene. You can see one vehicle at the bottom of the hill and the transport that has shattered to the right side, with a lot of debris around the building.EPA

A man, who was on another line at the bottom of the hill at the time of the accident, was reported that he believed that he would die.

“Regardless of the number of other years I live, I will never take the judiciary again,” he said.

The police did not officially call any of the dead or injured, but said at a press conference on Thursday that they believed that two Canadians and one Ukrainian citizen were among the dead.

This was followed by a previous update in which the police said they believed that five Portuguese, Koreans were identified southern and two Swiss.

In a statement issued on Friday, the police said that one of the French citizens, one of the United States and Three British citizens were also among the dead.

They added that a German citizen was said to have died on Thursday receiving treatment at Sao Jose Hospital.

The Portuguese Transport Federation said that the surface boiler goalkeeper Andre Khorkhi Gunsalvis Marquez was among the dead.

Charitable Santa Casa Da Mesrikordia, whose Montessic employees used to transfer their work, confirmed that four of their workers were killed in the accident.

One of the employees told the BBC, the BBC, the employees of the Charitable Society, located on the top of a very slope hill, often use the liquid with tourists and the elderly.

“I always felt safe,” he said. “I didn’t think this could happen.”

Reuters saving evaluation workers between the surface after the collapse in Lisbon Reuters

On Thursday, Carris, head of the public transport operator, said that all counter -drops in the city will be closed until technical inspections are performed.

Pedro Gonalo de Brito Alexo Bogas told reporters that the Gloria line would reopen it in the future with a new transfer.

He said that the company has increased its spending on preserving the teeths – which have worked properly since 2007 – but added that the cost of preserving it has doubled more than twice over the past ten years.

Dr. De Britto Bogas said that the results of the investigation will be issued soon, but she refused to determine when this will happen.

The footage of the social media showed that the inverted jam and yellow in the stones of the stones and the people running from the area while smoke fill the air.

Local authorities said that many passengers trapped in debris had to be released by emergency respondents.

Lisbon officials initially put the number of dead at the age of 17, but this number was later reviewed to 16 after they discovered a person who died in the hospital twice during the night.

A map showing the methods shown in Lisbon. Representative of red lines, BICA, Lavra and Graca Monsolis in the city. The Gloria Penis accident is highlighted in a red box. Baixa de Lisboa and Barrio Alto are shown.

The surface is a type of railway system that allows to travel up and down at the slope of high slope, and in Lisbon is a decisive way to move in the streets of the acute city paved city.

The surface railway in the city – Glória, Lavra, Bica and Graça – is a famous tourist attraction, as the bright tram -like yellow vehicles rolled in the mountain streets often.

Glória was opened in 1885 and entered three decades.

About 275 meters (900 feet) travels from restaurants, which is a city in downtown city, to the scenic streets of Bairro Alto. The journey takes only three minutes.

The vehicles are linked on the GLória road with a contrasting tip of the transport cable, which is withdrawn by electric motors.

While one of the transportation travels down, he raises his other weight, allowing them to escalate and descend simultaneously, which reduces the energy needed to transport it.

The second, sound transportation can only be seen meters away from debris at the bottom of the hill.

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