{"id":397689,"date":"2025-09-04T16:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397689\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:27:12","slug":"lisbon-funicular-cable-crash-who-are-the-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/397689\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisbon funicular cable crash: Who are the victims?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Portugal is in mourning after 16 people died and some 20 more were injured when Lisbon’s famous funicular cable railway derailed on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

A transport worker was among those killed, while a three-year-old German boy was reported to have escaped with minor injuries.<\/p>\n

Those hurt include four Portuguese, and 11 foreign nationals from Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, South Korea, Morocco and Cape Verde, according to emergency services.<\/p>\n

Police have not yet confirmed the identities of those who died, but here is what we do know about the victims.<\/p>\n

Transport worker, ex-volleyball referee and German father among the dead<\/p>\n

Some 16 people died in the crash, Portuguese Prime Minister Lu\u00eds Montenegro told a press conference on Thursday. The number was revised down after emergency services put the toll at 17 earlier in the day. <\/p>\n

Among the dead were seven men and eight women, and foreigners, Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon’s Civil Protection Agency, said. <\/p>\n

Some foreign nationals were also killed, but where they were from remains unclear. <\/p>\n

Portuguese transport union Sitra said Andr\u00e9 Jorge Gon\u00e7alves Marques, who worked as the brake guard on the funicular, <\/b>was among the dead.<\/p>\n

In a statement on Facebook, the union wrote: “We send our condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the accident and wish them a speedy recovery as well as the best recovery to the others injured in the accident.”<\/p>\n

He was a “dedicated, kind and happy professional, always willing to contribute to the greater good”, according to his employer Carris, which runs the funicular.<\/p>\n

Former volleyball referee Pedro Manuel Alves Trindade has been named as another victim of the crash by the Portuguese Volleyball Federation which said it was “deeply saddened by the tragedy”.<\/p>\n

It said Mr Trindade had served as leader of the Lisbon Volleyball Association as well as being a referee for it.<\/p>\n

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Pedro Trindade was a former president of the Lisbon Volleyball Association<\/p>\n

Ms Martins said the injured included 12 women and seven men aged between 24 and 65, and a three-year-old child.<\/p>\n

Local media reported that a German family-of-three were on board the funicular when it crashed.<\/p>\n

The father died at the scene, Portuguese news outlet Observador reported, while the mother was said to be in a critical condition in hospital, and a three-year-old boy sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n

A man in his 50s and woman in her 40s – employees of the charity Santa Casa da Miseric\u00f3rdia – also died, according to local media. <\/p>\n

Correio da Manha reported that seven employees of the charity were also injured. <\/p>\n

Of five “severely injured” people taken to S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 hospital on Wednesday, one has died, three were in a “controlled condition”, and one was in intensive care, the hospital said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

It added that a pregnant woman and a child were among four people with minor injuries who had been discharged. <\/p>\n

What we still don’t know<\/p>\n

The Gl\u00f3ria funicular can carry about 40 passengers and is extremely popular with tourists – but it is also crucial for the city’s residents, to help them travel up and down Lisbon’s hilly streets.<\/p>\n

We don’t know how many people were on board, or the identity of all those who died. The death toll and number of people injured could change in the coming hours.<\/p>\n

We also don’t know if any UK nationals are involved – the UK foreign office has said it is aware of the incident and is ready to provide consular assistance to any affected British nationals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Portugal is in mourning after 16 people died and some 20 more were injured when Lisbon’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-397689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115146971267919646","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}