LISBON (Reuters) -Lisbon’s Gloria funicular, which is popular with tourists, derailed and crashed on Wednesday, leaving an unspecified number of victims, police said, adding that they were not aware of any deaths.
CNN Portugal earlier said there were around 20 people injured.
A photo from the site showed the tram-like funicular, which carries people up and down a hillside in the Portuguese capital, practically destroyed.
“What we can say at this moment is that there are several victims, we are not aware of any fatalities, but we are only now arriving at the scene,” Paulo Sousa, shift chief of the Lisbon Fire Brigade, told Reuters.
(Reporting by Sergio Goncalves and Andrei Khalip; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne)
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