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Lisbon funicular crash kills a minimum of 15 individuals when fashionable streetcar derails

Editorial Board Published September 3, 2025
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Fifteen individuals had been killed and 18 had been injured after a funicular streetcar derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portugal, authorities mentioned Wednesday. 

The crash befell on a well-liked streetcar line referred to as the Elevador da Glória, a landmark situated in central Lisbon and sometimes visited by vacationers. It opened in 1885. 

5 of the injured are in severe situation, and a toddler is among the many injured, the Nationwide Institute for Medical Emergencies mentioned in an announcement. Officers haven’t launched the nationalities of the victims. 

The reason for the crash stays unclear. Authorities referred to as it an accident, the worst within the metropolis’s latest historical past.

Emergency groups work on the website of a derailed electrical streetcar in Lisbon, Portugal, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025.

Armando Franca / AP

Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas mentioned in a social media put up that town “is in mourning.” 

“The Lisbon City Council decrees three days of Municipal Mourning for the victims of the tragic accident at the Glória Funicular,” Moedas mentioned. “I extend my heartfelt condolences to all the families and friends of the victims. Lisbon is in mourning.”

The yellow-and-white streetcar, which matches up and down a steep downtown hill in tandem with one going the other manner, was mendacity on its aspect on the slim street that it travels alongside.

Its sides and prime had been partially crumpled, and it appeared to have crashed right into a constructing the place the street bends. A number of dozen emergency employees had been on the scene, however most stood down after about two hours.

Eyewitnesses informed native media that the streetcar careened down the hill, apparently uncontrolled. Carris, the corporate that operates the streetcar, mentioned scheduled upkeep had been carried out.

Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s workplace mentioned in an announcement that the president “deeply regrets the accident” and expressed “his condolences and solidarity with the families affected by this tragedy.”

This can be a creating story and will probably be up to date. 

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