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ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Lisbon, Portugal – 4 September 2025
1. STILL of police officers inspect the site where a tourist streetcar derailed and crashed
2. STILL of cranes are positioned to remove the wreckage of a tourist streetcar that derailed and crashed
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lisbon, Portugal – 4 September 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Carlos Moedas, Lisbon mayor:
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"We have decreed three days of municipal mourning and have ordered that all funiculars be shut down. At this moment we are gathering all information to ascertain who is responsible. Anything that may be said right now is pure speculation. The city needs answers. I am, in the name of Lisbon residents, the first person to want everything to be investigated. I have asked the president of Carris (Lisbon Tramways Company) to open an internal and an external independent investigation to ascertain responsibility (for the accident) in the shortest space of time. In relation to all other funiculars in the city, there is an immediate and ongoing assessment being carried out and they will only resume operations once it is completed."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Lisbon, Portugal – 4 September 2025
4. Various of crash site
5. Various of investigators at site
ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Lisbon, Portugal – 4 September 2025
6. STILL of workers remove the wreckage of a tourist streetcar that derailed and crashed
ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Lisbon, Portugal – 4 September 2025
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7. Portuguese president Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, prime minister Luís Montenegro and Lisbon mayor Carlos Moedas laying flowers at site
STORYLINE:
Portuguese officials focused Thursday on establishing the causes of the crash of a Lisbon streetcar popular with tourists that killed at least 16 people and injured 21, five of them seriously.
“The city needs answers,” Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas said in a televised statement about Wednesday’s derailment.
The downtown streetcar, which is known as Elevador da Gloria and is a major attraction for tourists packing the Portuguese capital during the summer season, came off the rails during the evening rush hour.
The crumpled wreckage was cordoned off as investigators sifted through the wreckage, took photographs and pulled up a metal cable from beneath the rails that climb one of Lisbon’s steep hills.
Police, public prosecutors and government transport experts are investigating the causes, Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said during a joint news conference with the mayor.
The company that operates the streetcar service, Carris, said that it has also opened its own investigation. It said that scheduled maintenance had been carried out.
As well as those, the mayor said he would ask for an investigation from an outside independent body.
The electric streetcar, technically called a funicular, is harnessed by steel cables, with the descending car helping with its weight to pull up the other one. The car can carry more than 40 people, seated and standing.
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