{"id":112506,"date":"2025-09-03T22:06:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112506\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T22:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:06:15","slug":"at-least-15-dead-after-lisbon-gloria-funicular-derails-and-hits-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112506\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 15 dead after Lisbon Gloria Funicular derails and hits building"},"content":{"rendered":"

At least 15 dead after world-famous funicular crashespublished at 22:46 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

22:46 BST<\/p>\n

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At least 15 people have been killed after Lisbon’s world-famous Gloria Funicular cable railway derailed and hit a building.<\/p>\n

The crash happened at around 18:15 local time (18:15 BST). Eighteen people have been injured and taken to hospital, authorities say, including one child.<\/p>\n

Everyone trapped inside has been freed, but emergency workers and forensics staff are continuing to comb through the scene of the crash into the night.<\/p>\n

We’ve not yet had official confirmation of what caused the crash. An eyewitness has told the Portuguese TV channel SIC that the funicular hit a building as it sped down the steep street “at full speed”, AFP news agency reports.<\/p>\n

“It hit a building with brutal force and collapsed like a cardboard box; it had no brakes,” the woman said.<\/p>\n

The company that operates the trams has said it is “very sorry about what happened” and that they “need to get to the bottom” of it. The Portuguese government has declared Thursday a day of national mourning, while Lisbon city has announced three days of mourning.<\/p>\n

We’re ending our live coverage now. Here’s everything you need to know about the crash<\/a>, and you can continue to follow updates in our news story.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At least 15 dead after world-famous funicular crashespublished at 22:46 British Summer Time 22:46 BST Image source, epa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-112506","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\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}