Two Canadians, Americans, Germans and Ukrainians are among the 16 people killed in the funicular derailment on Wednesday, September 3 in Lisbon, the Portuguese police on the basis of elements allowed to establish their nationality with a “high degree of probability” on Thursday, September 4.
The conclusions of the investigators are based on the documents collected by the victims, their communications until the accident or contacts of the people who seek to obtain information about family members, said the director of the Judicial Police, the Luís Nevos.
Among the victims there are also five Portuguese, two South Koreans and one Swiss. There are still three people to identify, explained a little earlier in the day in Los Nevos de Luís.
The autopsies of the victims’ bodies were completed in the afternoon, announces Francisco Corte Real, president of the Institute of Legal Medicine, interviewed by the news of the local media. They made “in record time, to lighten the suffering of their families,” he added.
Causes Research
Regarding the causes of this accident that cost the lives of sixteen people, Carris opened an “internal research”, the transport company that operates the Funicular de Lisbon “, with the collaboration of external consultants,” the company said in a press release.
“We will suspend the exploitation of all funicular and the elevator. These will be subject to rigorous technical control, carried out by an external organization, in the next few days,” he added.
A time mentioned, the route of a cable rupture is discarded by Carris, which ensures that “the investigation will determine this point and we cannot assume.”
Source: BFM TV
