Lisbon’s sexuality derails, kills 15 people and gets injured 18

Lisbon, Portugal (AP) – a Picturesque electric tram It was one of Lisbon’s biggest tourist attractions, which derailed and crashed on Wednesday, killing 15 people and injuring 18 people, emergency services said.

Five of the injured were in serious condition and the children were among the injured, the Portuguese National Medical Emergency Institute said in a statement, adding that an unknown number of foreigners were among the injured.

Authorities called it an accident, the worst in the city’s recent history, which has polled the charm of Lisbon. Millions of foreign tourists People who arrive every year. Authorities did not immediately provide the cause of the crash.

Known as the Elevedor da Gloria, the yellow and white trams climbing and down the steep downtown hills lay on the narrow roads it travels with crumpled sides and tops. The road crashed into a bent building, and part of a vehicle, mostly metal, appeared to have been crushed.

“It hit the building with brutal force, falling apart like a cardboard box…” Teresa Dabo told Portuguese television channel SIC.

Dozens of paramedics were on the scene, most of them stood up about two hours later.

Witnesses told local media that the tram ran down the hill and was clearly out of control. One witness said a tram fell on the sidewalk by a man.

A widely shared video across social media in the moments after the accident showed what appeared to be running up the hill as people exited the tram just in front of a crashed tram and cried out.

Carris, the tram-operating company, said the scheduled maintenance was undertaken. It expressed the deepest sadness of the victim and his family in a social media post, promising that all due diligence will be taken when finding the cause of the accident.

The Lisbon city council has stopped operating other trams in the city and ordered immediate inspections, local media reported.

President Marcelo Rebello de Souza expressed his sadness for the affected families, and Lisbon Mayor Carlos Modus said the city is in mourning. “It’s a tragedy we’ve never seen,” Modus said.

The Portuguese government announced on Thursday that a day of mourning for its citizens will be observed. “The tragic accident has caused irreparable losses of human lives, mourning families and disappointing the nation,” the statement said.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also expressed her sadness. “It was sad to learn that the famous Elevedor da Gloria was derailed,” she wrote in X in Portuguese.

The crash crash reportedly occurred at the start of night rush hour, and said at about 6pm all the victims had been pulled out of the wreckage in just two hours.

The government said once the rescue operation is over, an investigation into the cause will begin.

Union Citra wrote in a social media post that one of its members died in an accident.

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani wrote that while he met with the Portuguese Foreign Minister and expressed “solidarity with the victims,” ​​he was “a pitiful accident.”

According to a post from X, US Embassy Lisbon also said it “showed the deepest sadness of all affected people.”

Technically known as sex, the trams are used with steel cables and can carry over 40 people sitting and standing. It is also commonly used by Lisbon residents. The service of hundreds of meters (yards) of hills on curved, traffic-free roads began the opposite way in 1885.

It is classified as a national monument.

Lisbon hosted around 8.5 million tourists last year, and people of long people were usually formed due to short rides on popular streetcars.

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Seattle Associated Press Reporter Harry Golden contributed to this report.