Drone footage shows wreckage of Lisbon's funicular crash
Portuguese authorities were investigating on Thursday what caused a Lisbon funicular railway popular with tourists to hurtle down a hill, killing at least 16 people and injuring 22 when it crashed into a building.
Drone footage showed the mangled wreckage of a yellow carriage, which was used to ferry people up and down a steep hillside in the Portuguese capital.
The funicular had left the track and hit a building on Wednesday, just metres from its twin at the bottom of the steep 265-metre slope. The traction cable linking them had snapped.
Thirty-eight people were hurt in the accident, with 15 killed at the scene while one more died in hospital overnight. Lisbon's director of emergency services Margarida Martins had earlier said that 17 had died.
Among the injured were four Portuguese, two Germans, two Spanish, one Korean, one Cape Verdean, one Canadian, one Italian, one French citizen, one Swiss and one Moroccan, Martins said.
Authorities did not identify the victims by name, but said some foreign nationals were among the dead.
(Source: Reuters)
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