(4 Sep 2025)
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Lisbon, Portugal – 4 September 2025
1. Wide of tram accident scene, police officers securing the area on a narrow street
2. Wide of tram wreckage at the scene of tram accident.
3. Mid of debris scattered on the street
4. Mid of tram wreckage and debris scattered on the ground
5. Mid of damaged tram infrastructure
6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Margarida Castro Martins, Director of Lisbon Civil Protection:
"Of the twenty-three injured taken to the hospital, two died in hospital overnight. We have a total of thirty-eight people involved, including twenty-one injured and seventeen fatalities."
7. Mid of police officers discussing at the scene of the tram accident
8. Mid of investigator examining tram wreckage
9. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Margarida Castro Martins, Director of Lisbon Civil Protection:
"Regarding the fatalities, we have identified seven men and eight women, all adults, among them foreign nationals. We do not yet have information on the age or nationality of these victims."
10. Mid of tram tracks
11. Mid of tram wreckage at accident scene with debris scattered around
12. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Margarida Castro Martins, Director of Lisbon Civil Protection:
"Regarding the nationality of the victims transported to the hospitals, we have so far identified four Portuguese, two German, two Spanish, one Korean, one Cape Verdean, one Canadian, one Italian, one French, one Swiss, and one Moroccan. The nationality of four injured individuals is still being ascertained."
13. Mid of emergency workers inspecting the tram accident scene as onlookers gather nearby
14. Mid of officials and emergency personnel discussing at the tram accident site
15. Mid of person inside a tram taking photographs
16. Wide of emergency responders and officials examining the scene of a tram accident
STORYLINE:
The death toll in the crash of a famous Lisbon streetcar popular with tourists rose to 17 Thursday after two of the 23 injured people died, an emergency services official said.
The dead were all adults, Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon’s Civil Protection Agency, told reporters. She didn’t provide their names or nationalities, saying that their families would be informed first.
Another 21 people were injured in Wednesday’s crash, she said. They included Portuguese people as well as two Germans, two Spaniards and one person each from France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Morocco, South Korea and Cape Verde, she said.
The range of nationalities reflected how big a draw the renowned streetcar was for tourists who are packing the Portuguese capital during the summer season.
Portugal observed a national day of mourning Thursday after the capital’s worst disaster in recent history.
Though authorities gave no details about those killed, the transport workers’ trade union SITRA said that the streetcar’s brakeman, André Marques, was among the dead.
The 19th-century streetcar is one of Lisbon’s big tourist attractions and is usually packed with foreigners at this time of year for its short and picturesque trip up and down one of the city’s steep hills.
Teams of pathologists at the National Forensics Institute, reinforced by colleagues from three other Portuguese cities, worked through the night on autopsies, officials said.
The injured were admitted to several hospitals in the Lisbon region.
The streetcar’s crumpled wreckage was still on the downtown road where it crashed Thursday, cordoned off by police.
Officials declined to speculate on whether a faulty brake or a snapped cable may have caused the derailment.
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