{"id":116480,"date":"2025-09-03T20:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116480\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:07:08","slug":"elevador-da-gloria-derails-killing-multiple-people-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/116480\/","title":{"rendered":"Elevador da Gloria derails, killing multiple people in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"

An electric streetcar that is one of Lisbon’s landmarks and a big draw for tourists in Portugal<\/a> derailed overnight, killing 15 people and injuring 18 others, emergency services said.<\/p>\n

Five of the injured are in serious condition, the National Institute for Medical Emergencies said in a statement.<\/p>\n

An unknown number of the injured are foreigners, it said.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/A funicular has derailed in central Lisbon, smashing into a building and injuring multiple people. (Vigilantes da Estrada)<\/p>\n

Live footage on local TV showed the emblematic bright yellow carriage completely destroyed, surrounded by firefighters.<\/p>\n

Videos shot by bystanders showed a huge cloud of dust and people running towards the accident.<\/p>\n

Several injured people were carried away from the crash, which took place on Wednesday afternoon (early Thursday AEST) in part of the town that’s extremely popular with tourists.<\/p>\n

Lisbon Mayo\ufeffr Carlos Moedas confirmed there had been fatalities without giving specific numbers.<\/p>\n

He said it was an accident that “should not have happened” but didn’t respond when asked if the city’s other funiculars were safe.<\/p>\n

“Lisbon is in mourning,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It’s a tragic moment for our city.”<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Emergency teams work at the site of a derailed funicular. (AP Photo\/Armando Franca)<\/p>\n

President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa shred his deep regret and offered his sympathy for and solidarity with those affected by the “tragedy”.<\/p>\n

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also sent her condolences. “It is with sadness that I learned of the derailment of the famous Elevador da Gloria,” she wrote in Portuguese on X.<\/p>\n

An investigation into the causes will begin once the rescue operation is over, the Portuguese government said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The funicular links Restauradores, a zone with multiple hotels, a major railway station and many shops and restaurants, with Bairro Alto, the city’s busiest neighbourhood for nightlife.<\/p>\n

Hilly Lisbon is home to several funiculars, along with its renowned trams, which have a similar design and are popular with tourists, along with the locals who use them to get around the city.<\/p>\n

The carriages on the Elevador da Gloria, which are old and don’t have seatbelts, can hold 40 or more passengers seated and standing.<\/p>\n

\"\"\/Emergency teams work at the site of a derailed electric streetcar in Lisbon, Portugal. (AP Photo\/Armando Franca)<\/p>\n

Lisbon hosted around 8.5 million tourists last year, and the streetcar is a popular attraction. Long lines of tourists typically form for the brief ride on it.<\/p>\n

The same funicular system suffered a derailment in 2018 but no one was injured.<\/p>\n

Carris, which operates much of the city’s public transport network, told CNN Portugal said that all its resources were activated to respond and its “priority is to monitor the situation”.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson didn’t offer any details of a possible cause for the crash.<\/p>\n

With Associated Press.\ufeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An electric streetcar that is one of Lisbon’s landmarks and a big draw for tourists in Portugal derailed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-116480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}