On Wednesday, September 3, at 6 pm, at 6 PM, one of Lisbon’s famous funicular derailed and made many victims in one of the very tourist districts of the Portuguese capital, an “unprecedented tragedy” according to the mayor of the city. The accident that occurred at 6 pm and whose precise causes were not known immediately, the cars of the famous glory was revoked, which connects the place Du Rossio with the districts of the high Bairro and the real principle. The images transmitted on social networks show the moments immediately after the drama: in a cloud of smoke and debris, the funicular completely dislocated against a wall appears, after apparently it has not taken the turn at the bottom of the street that borrowed. The derailment of one of Lisbon’s emblematic funicular left at least 17 dead, according to a last evaluation communicated at night with the help of the Portuguese capital and 21 injured, including a French, confirms the quai d’Orsay in BFMTV.
Source: BFM TV
