La maggior parte degli uccisi nel deragliamento del tram di Lisbona erano stranieri, dice la polizia
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All they had to do was pay for maintenance, but that seems to be a common occurrence in Portugal. They want everything for free.
Really sad news. Lisbon’s trams are iconic, but safety should always come first. Hopefully this leads to better maintenance and oversight so tragedies like this don’t happen again.
Yesterday, police and media reported that a German husband and father was among the deceased. His wife is in the ICU and his child is moderately injured.
Throughout the day, his family tried to figure out where his body was being stored, but nobody could locate it. Today, they heard from the police that there are still unidentified survivors in the hospital. As it turns out, he is one of them and the reports about his death were a mistake.
These things happen in chaotic accidents like this one, but it must be absolutely horrible for the family to go through this rollercoaster.
My wife and I walked down that street only about a month ago, and I can quite vividly imagine the scene, and consequently it feels much more real than other tragedies like this. It’s a narrow, steep street, with even more narrow sidewalks, with the same slippery pavement that’s all over Lisbon. I can only imagine the horror of both those on the streetcar and any pedestrians that may have had to react quickly and get out of the way. There’s a fairly long stretch of the street where there’s nowhere to go if something that big is unpredictably hurtling towards you.
I use this street regularly, and when I heard of the incident I was expecting all the victims to be foreigners, since the queues are so long and the tram so packed that usually locals just don’t bother anymore.
The irony here is that some locals use the tram, specially going down, for safety reasons, because the street is so steep, the sidewalks so narrow, and the pavement so slippery, that it seemed that using it was safer than going by foot.
On the other side of the Avenue, the Lavra tram goes through an even steeper and longer street, without much in the way of sidewalks.
LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Police in Portugal said Friday that 11 of the 16 people killed when [a streetcar derailed](https://apnews.com/article/lisbon-streetcar-deadly-derailment-what-to-know-c3637a52a4df5e3dd3563e845a342278) were foreigners, as an initial investigative report examining what caused the popular Lisbon tourist attraction to crash was expected to be released.
The dead included five Portuguese nationals, three British citizens, two Canadians, two South Koreans, one American, one French, one Swiss and one Ukrainian, police said in a statement.
A German man also thought to have died in [Wednesday’s crash](https://apnews.com/article/lisbon-portugal-streetcar-funicular-accident-a12688b21b2059d18cab6c2117a376af) was found to be in a Lisbon hospital, police said. It didn’t provide an explanation for the error.
The list of nationalities was published following forensic identification.
The distinctive yellow-and-white [Elevador da Gloria,](https://apnews.com/article/streetcar-derails-lisbon-d63600ff5092969b088507bbccf44aab) which is classified as a national monument, was packed with locals and international tourists Wednesday evening when it came off its rails. Sixteen people were killed and 21 others were injured.
Multiple agencies are investigating what Prime Minister Luis Montenegro has described as “one of the biggest tragedies of our recent past.”
The government’s Office for Air and Rail Accident Investigations said that it has concluded its analysis of the wreckage and would issue a preliminary technical report Friday. It wasn’t clear how revealing the report would be.
Chief police investigator Nelson Oliveira said that a preliminary police report, which has a broader scope, is expected within 45 days.
The streetcar’s wreckage was removed from the scene overnight and placed in police custody.
# A tragedy beyond Portugal’s borders
A woman who was a French-Canadian dual citizen is among the dead, the French Foreign Ministry said Friday.
The transport workers’ trade union SITRA said the streetcar’s brakeman, André Marques, was among the dead. A national Portuguese charitable organization, Santa Casa da Misericórdia, whose main Lisbon headquarters are at the top of the hill where the streetcar runs, said four of its staff were killed.
Spaniards, Israelis, Portuguese, Brazilians, Italians and French people were injured, the executive director of Portugal’s National Health Service, Álvaro Santos, said.
“This tragedy … goes beyond our borders,” Montenegro said in a televised address from his official residence. Lisbon hosted around 8.5 million tourists last year, and long lines of people typically form for the streetcar’s short and picturesque trip a few hundred meters up and down a city street. Thursday was a national day of mourning.
Hundreds of people attended a somber Mass Thursday evening at Lisbon’s majestic Church of Saint Dominic. Montenegro, President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas were among the attendees, some dressed in black, in the candlelit sanctuary.