Lisbon, Portugal (AP) – Details have begun to appear. Trams in the capital of Portugal The first research report was expected to be released on Friday, examining why the appeal of popular Lisbon tourists crashed.
Unique yellow and white Elevedor da Gloria, It was classified as a national monument and was packed on Wednesday evening when locals and international tourists got off the rails. Sixteen people were killed and 21 more injured.
Several agencies are investigating what Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro described as “one of the biggest tragedy of recent past.”
The government’s air and rail accident investigation office has concluded its analysis of the wreckage and said it will issue a preliminary technical report on Friday. Police investigator Nelson Oliveira said a wider range of preliminary police reports would be expected within 45 days.
The tram wreckage was removed from the scene overnight and placed in police custody.
Tragedy that transcends Portugal’s borders
The Portuguese Attorney General’s Office said eight deaths were identified on Thursday: five Portuguese, two Koreans and one Swiss.
There is a “high possibility” based on recovered documents and other evidence. The victims include two Canadians, one American, a German and one Ukrainian, according to head of National Investigation Police, Louis Neves. Investigators are still working to identify the three victims.
People are watching a tourist route that derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portugal on Thursday, September 4th, 2025 (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
France’s foreign ministry said Friday.
Transport workers’ union Citra said that streetcar breakman Andre Marquez was one of the dead. Santa Casa da Misericordia, a national Portuguese charity, said four staff members had been killed at the main Lisbon headquarters on the top of a tram-car-run hill.
He said Spanish, Israelis, Portuguese, Brazilians, Italians and Frenchmen in Albaro Santos Almeida, executive director of Portugal’s National Health Service, were injured. The five remained in serious condition.
“This tragedy… crosses our border,” Montenegro said at the address aired from his official home. Lisbon hosted around 8.5 million tourists last year, and people of long people were usually formed due to short and beautiful trips on the streets of the Peninsula, hundreds of meteors. Thursday was a national day of mourning.
Hundreds of people attended a gloomy Mass at the majestic St. Dominique’s Church in Lisbon on Thursday evening. Montenegro and Portugal President Marcelo Rebello de Sousa and Lisbon mayor Carlos Modus were among the attacked attendees dressed in black in a candle sanctuary.
Operators say the tram was inspected daily.
Electric trams, also known as substances, are used with steel cables and can carry more than 40 people. Authorities declined to comment on whether the brakes were broken or whether snapped cables prompted a downward tram Careen to the building A place where the steep downtown road turns.
“Cities need answers,” the mayor said, adding that the story of possible causes is “just speculation.”
Police officers will be leaving the area where tourist trams derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portugal on Thursday, September 4th, 2025 (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
Aside from investigations by police, prosecutors and government transport experts, the company that operates trams and buses in Lisbon said it has launched its own investigation.
The tram, which has been in service since 1914, received a full maintenance program scheduled for last year, and the company conducted 30-minute visual inspections every day, Carris CEO Pedro de Brito Bogas said Thursday.
The tram was last inspected nine hours before the derailment, he said at a press conference, but he also did not specify details of the visual inspection when he questioned whether all the cables had been tested.
Lisbon city council has stopped operating three other sexual trams while immediate inspections were conducted.
Tourists are shaking
Felicity Feritor, a 70-year-old British tourist, said he was unpacking his suitcase at a nearby hotel when he heard the “terrifying crash.”
The couple saw the tram when they arrived and were planning to board the next day.
On Thursday, September 4th, 2025, the man announced that trams are not working in Lisbon, Portugal, announced on September 4th, 2025 that he is not using trams.
“It was to be one of the highlights of our holiday,” she said: “It could have been us.”
On a family holiday, a 23-year-old Italian tourist, Francesca di Bello was in Elevedor da Gloria just hours before the derailment.
They walked by the crash site on Thursday and expressed shock at the wreckage. When asked if she would ride sex again in Portugal or elsewhere, Di Bello emphasized, “Not definitely.”
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Hernan Munoz of Lisbon and Angela Charlton of Paris contributed to this report.
