Portuguese government decreed a day of national mourning on Thursday (4) and lamented the tragedy that caused the ‘irreparable loss of human lives’
The balance of the derailment of thean emblematic cable car in the center of rose on Thursday (4) to 17 dead after the death of two injured at dawn, announced the director of emergency services of the Portuguese capital, Margarida Castro. The accident, which happened on Wednesday afternoon, also left 21 injured, 11 of them foreigners: two Spaniards, two Germans, one French, one Italian, a Swiss, a Canadian, a Korean, a Moroccan and a Cape Verdean. Margarida Castro said the nationality of the deceased will be released later by the Public Prosecution Service.
National mourning
The government decreed a day of national mourning on Thursday and lamented the “tragic accident” that caused the “irreparable loss of human lives,” according to the text provided to Lusa by the office of Prime Minister Luís Montenegro. The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, also expressed in X her condolences to the families of the victims, ensuring that she was “sad” to learn of the accident. Images released on social networks showed, in the midst of a cloud of smoke, a fully destroyed funicular against a wall, after apparently not turned the turn at the end of the street where he moved.
*With information from AFP
