Lisbon, Portugal (AP) – Portugal police said Friday when 11 of 16 people died The tram has gone off track It was expected to be released as the first research report by foreigners to investigate the causes of the crash in popular Lisbon tourist attractions.
The deaths included five Portuguese nationals, three British citizens, two Canadians, two Koreans, one American, one French, one Swiss and one Ukrainian.
I thought the German man had died too. Wednesday’s crash Police said it was found to be in Lisbon Hospital. No explanation for the error was provided.
The list of nationalities was published following forensic identification.
Unique yellow and white Elevedor da Gloria, It was classified as a national monument and was packed on Wednesday evening when locals and international tourists got off the rails. Sixteen people have been killed and 21 others have been injured.
Several agencies are investigating what Prime Minister Lewis Montenegro described as “one of the biggest tragedy of recent past.”
The government’s air and rail accident investigation office has concluded its analysis of the wreckage and said it will issue a preliminary technical report on Friday. It was not clear how clear the report would be.
Police investigator Nelson Oliveira said a wider range of preliminary police reports would be expected within 45 days.
The tram wreckage was removed from the scene overnight and placed in police custody.
Tragedy that transcends Portugal’s borders
France’s foreign ministry said Friday.
Transport workers’ union Citra said that streetcar breakman Andre Marquez was one of the dead. Santa Casa da Misericordia, a national Portuguese charity, said four staff members had been killed at the main Lisbon headquarters on the top of a tram-car-run hill.
Spaniards, Israelis, Portuguese, Brazilians, Italians and French people have been injured, said Alvaro Santos, executive director of Portugal’s National Health Service.
People are watching a tourist route that derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portugal on Thursday, September 4th, 2025 (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
“This tragedy… crosses our border,” Montenegro said at the address aired from his official home. Lisbon hosted around 8.5 million tourists last year, and people of long people were usually formed due to short and beautiful trips on the streets of the Peninsula, hundreds of meteors. Thursday was a national day of mourning.
Hundreds of people attended a gloomy Mass at the majestic St. Dominique’s Church in Lisbon on Thursday evening. Montenegro, President Marcelo Rebello de Sousa and Lisbon mayor Carlos Modus were among the attendees dressed in black in the candle sanctuary.
Daily inspection
Electric trams, also known as substances, are used with steel cables and can carry more than 40 people. Authorities declined to comment on whether the brakes were broken or whether snapped cables prompted a downward tram Careen to the building A place where the steep downtown road turns.
“Cities need answers,” the mayor said, adding that the story of possible causes is “just speculation.”
Police officers will be leaving the area where tourist trams derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portugal on Thursday, September 4th, 2025 (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
Aside from investigations by police, prosecutors and government transport experts, the company that operates trams and buses in Lisbon said it has launched its own investigation.
The tram, which has been in service since 1914, received a full maintenance program scheduled for last year, and the company conducted 30-minute visual inspections daily, Carris CEO Pedro de Brito Bogas said Thursday.
The tram was last inspected nine hours before the derailment, he said at a press conference, but he did not detail the visual inspection or specified when asked whether all the cables had been tested.
Lisbon city council has stopped operating three other sexual trams while immediate inspections were conducted.
Tourists are shaking
Felicity Feritor, a 70-year-old British tourist, said he was unpacking his suitcase at a nearby hotel when he heard the “terrifying crash.”
The couple saw the tram when they arrived and were planning to board the next day.
On Thursday, September 4th, 2025, the man announced that the trams are not working in Lisbon, Portugal, reads the sign on September 4th, 2025.
“It was to be one of the highlights of our holiday,” she said: “It could have been us.”
On a family holiday, a 23-year-old Italian tourist, Francesca di Bello was in Elevedor da Gloria just hours before the derailment.
They walked by the crash site on Thursday and expressed shock at the wreckage. When asked if she would ride sex again in Portugal or elsewhere, Di Bello emphasized, “Not definitely.”
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Hernan Muñoz of Lisbon and Angela Charlton of Paris contributed to this report.
