Tiago Petinga / Lusa
The mother of the younger victim of the accident is stable and out of danger, having already received visits to the intensive care of Santa Maria.
It is one of the few good news in the middle of the tragedy that plagued Lisbon with the derailment of the Glory Elevator. The mother of the 3 -year -old German boy who was injured in the accident is already awake and stable In the intensive care of the Santa Maria Hospital.
Despite the severity of the injuries, which forced surgery on multiple fractures, the 45 -year -old German woman is conscious and already receives visits, Not at immediate risk of lifeaccording to a hospital source heard by.
The child’s father It was even given as deadbut the Judiciary Police later confirmed that it was alive and hospitalized in São José. The authorities suspect that the father saved his son with his own body, as he was found over the child, belly belly, protecting him from the impact. According to the German embassy, which confirmed only the Berlinense origin of the family, family members asked for reserve and discretion.
This unit keeps admitted two injured in the accident, one in a controlled situation and one in intensive care. Another injured patient, of Swiss nationality, was however repatriated on Sunday after clinical stabilization.
The case of the 3-year-old boy became one of the most exciting stories of the tragedy with the Glory Elevator, since he is the youngest victim of the accident. A video recorded by Mohammed Farid, a Bangladesh immigrant who works in the immediate vicinity, Show the boy on his lap From a Portuguese man, who later reported receiving the child from third parties among the rubble. Farid himself clarified TVI that he was not the one who carried the child, but a friend.
PSP also played a decisive role in the rescue. Subintendent Rui Costa, commander of the Lisbon Criminal Investigation Division, explained that an agent of the corporation was the first to arrive. This police withdrew the child under the wreckageHe handed it to a civilian and continued help to other victims, including the man who believed he was his father. The police still cleared his mouth and nose, but suspected that he had not survived for being unconscious, then focused on his mother, who asked her for help to save her son.
The same police accompanied mother and child in the ambulance to the hospital, and the child was very attached to the agent. The agent was part of a PSP team that was working on the undercover in a criminal investigation in the area, having been the first authorities to arrive at the scene when they heard the crash. All police involved in the accident are receive psychological support.
O Boy is now with paternal grandparentswho came from Hamburg to Lisbon to identify his son’s body. It was when they realized that the body was not at the Institute of Forensic Medicine that was discovered then that the boy’s father was, after all, an injured that had not yet been identified. According to the boy’s father may have been confused with a British victim, who had some physical resemblance to him and wore a FC Schalke 04 nightgown, a German soccer club.
The accident caused 16 dead and 23 injuredamong them citizens of seven nationalities. Among the deadly victims are five Portuguese-the Guard and four workers from the Holy House of Mercy-as well as foreigners from Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, South Korea, Ukraine and the United States. PJ continues to work on identifying some foreign victims.
