“It was on the walk and took the electric on top.” What did you see who passed by the sidewalk of glory

The “catastrophe could have been even greater.” Those who saw the accident feared that the electrical who was going down the course and derailed to pack up and came up and entered the Avenida da Liberdade, making more victims.

The heart of Lisbon was surprised on Wednesday afternoon by an accident in one of the main attractions of the city: o.

Of the disaster that occurred at 6 pm resulted at least 21 injured and 17 dead.

On the walk, several people passed. Some are now witnesses of the accident. At least one took the electric on top, not yet knowing if it is one of the deadly victims.

A witness to the accident, Teresa d’Avówho was at the exact moment of the accident told the details of what he described as a “catastrophe”.

“I watched everything. It came to meet a colleague precisely at the end of the elevator street. We were talking normally when the downstream (not the above that was destroyed), but the bottom, which I was going to do the upward routecame back about one and a half meters and made a big crash“He said.

Abel Estevespassenger of this carriage detailed, to RTP, the moments of distress he lived with his wife, the moment he sticked: “People started all screaming. The only one who was not shouting was me and the guard, who panicked and could not speak.”

Before the crash, Abel, renovated, I had already realized that something wrong was going through. “When the electric went to pull only four or five meters. people who were standing all fell“.” I said ‘calm’ Guard, poor guy, paralyzed, said nothing“.

Teresa, outside, says that the moment she was going to help people from the electric where Abel was, was caught by surprise with the second electric involved accident, who made the descendant route.

“This elevator was full and we were soon helping; but the moment when We were going to help, we saw the elevator from above the unbridled descend; And the only thing we could do was turn back and start fleeing across the avenue, ”he said, still shaken.

Tragedy could have been greater

Inside the downstairs, Abel thought he was going to die: “I said calmly, but when I saw the other electric down, I said to my wife ‘let’s die all’, because I thought that electric was coming over this“.

However, the electric that came from above, derailed before reaching below: “In the curve the electric is toppled and with the speed it was clashed in the building (…) If I had stuffed down here it would have been an even greater catastrophe; It would reach the other electric that was full, ”explains Teresa D’Avó.

Teresa also said that she looked back and saw a person on the walk At the moment the exact moment the accident took place.

“I still looked back and I know that, At least one personI’m sure, was on the walk when the electric hit the building“.

“It is impossible for people to be wellbecause the electricity came to an astronomical speed. We got scared a lot because we thought it came to the bottom and we were all down here, ”said the witness, about an hour after the accident.

However, in the downstairs, “two foreign boys jumped out the window,” said Abel Esteves. “Then I went with them up and the boys had already taken a lady who was full of blood, but The second person was already dead“.

“After I saw the other people all stuck in the irons“He lamented, reporting that they immediately came” four or five police running from the Alto neighborhood and two Carris inspectors. “They sent me up, but I said soon that the people who came in this electric died all …”, he said, thrilled.

It is now known that the accident resulted ,.