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<\/p>\nPORTUGAL PROBE\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police sources said he had head injuries and appeared to have been beaten.\n<\/p>\n
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Lisbon cityspace. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n
Police are investigating the death of an Irishman found in a Lisbon street.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old, who has not been named, was discovered lifeless around 8.50am this morning.<\/p>\n
Police sources said he had head injuries and appeared to have been beaten.<\/p>\n
Officers from the country\u2019s PSP police force were the first to be alerted and reach the scene.<\/p>\n
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Lisbon cityspace. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n
News in 90 Seconds – Wednesday, October 15<\/p>\n
Detectives from the Policia Judiciaria, Portugal\u2019s national criminal investigation police agency, are now handling the case.<\/p>\n
The area where the man was found dead is Lisbon\u2019s old Casal Ventoso neighbourhood, once described as one of the city\u2019s most dangerous.<\/p>\n
In the 1980s and \u201890s it was known as the biggest drug supermarket in Europe.<\/p>\n
The shanty town that had sprung up there ended up being demolished but recent Portuguese media reports say drug problems are still an issue in the area.<\/p>\n
The grim discovery occurred hours after an American tourist was stabbed to death in a street attack in the resort of Cascais a half-hour drive west of Lisbon.<\/p>\n
Local reports said the 35-year-old was attacked after going to help a friend who was being bothered by three men.<\/p>\n
The incident happened around 3.20am this morning.<\/p>\n
The stab victim was rushed to Lisbon\u2019s Santa Maria Hospital but died shortly after arriving.<\/p>\n
Sources said they thought the intention of the three assailants, who fled the scene in a car, could have been to rob their victims before they resisted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORTUGAL PROBE\u00a0|\u00a0 Police sources said he had head injuries and appeared to have been beaten. Lisbon cityspace. Photo:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-84070","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\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}