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Lisbon’s Gloria funicular derails: What we know about the cause and victims

Lisbon Gloria PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA Carris

At least 15 people were killed and 18 others injured, five of them critically, in the Lisbon funicular carriage crash [Patricia de Melo Moreira/AFP]

At least 15 people were killed when Lisbon’s Gloria funicular railcar derailed and crashed, emergency services said.

Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa shared his condolences with the families affected by what he described as a tragedy.

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