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Lisbon Funicular Cable Disconnected Before Deadly Crash: Inspectors

Sixteen people were killed in the accident, most of them foreign visitors (Credit: AFP)

A cable linking two cabins disconnected shortly before the funicular crash that killed 16 people in Lisbon this week, hours after the cable had passed a visual check, accident inspectors said Saturday.

The information came in a note on Wednesday's accident published by Portugal's air and rail accident investigations bureau (GPIAAF).

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