{"id":481373,"date":"2025-09-04T07:10:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/deaths-in-portugal-accident-rise-to-17-with-injuries-involving-several-nationalities\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T07:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:10:49","slug":"deaths-in-portugal-accident-rise-to-17-with-injuries-involving-several-nationalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/deaths-in-portugal-accident-rise-to-17-with-injuries-involving-several-nationalities\/","title":{"rendered":"Deaths in Portugal accident rise to 17, with injuries involving several nationalities"},"content":{"rendered":"Lisbon.-<\/strong> The number of fatalities in yesterday’s accident on the Gloria Elevator (Elevador da Gl\u00f3ria), a well-known tourist funicular in the center of Lisbon, has risen to 17, following the death last night of two of the injured, among whom are people of various nationalities such as Spanish, French, Italian, Canadian or Portuguese<\/a>.\n\nIn statements to the press, a spokeswoman for the Portuguese Civil Protection refused to give details about the countries of origin of the deceased. Fifteen of the deceased are adults (seven men and eight women) and the data of the other two are still unknown.\n\n\n

Read more: Government designates ambassadors to Japan, Brazil and Portugal<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\nRegarding the 23 injured, of whom 7 are in serious condition, he emphasized that, according to the information available, there were two Spaniards, four Portuguese, two Germans, one Korean, one Cape Verdean, one Canadian, one Italian, one French, one Swiss, and one Moroccan.\n\nOf the 23 injured, 12 are women and there are 7 men, aged between 24 and 65 years old, except for a three-year-old minor. Those people were admitted to the hospitals of Santa Maria, S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9, S\u00e3o Francisco e Xavier and Cascais.\n\nSources from the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that there are two injured Spaniards who have already been discharged and that there is no record of any other victims of this nationality.\n\nThe spokeswoman for Portuguese Civil Protection added that most of the injured were taken by ambulance, although there are four minor injuries who arrived on their own.\n\nThe funicular derailed on Wednesday around 6:00 p.m. local time (5:00 p.m. GMT). Near that area, the spokeswoman for Civil Protection explained that a psychological center was set up yesterday to support the families and friends of the victims.\n\nAfter traffic was cut off in that area the day before, it has reopened this Thursday, except on one side of Avenida da Liberdade, which leads to Restauradores square.\n\nThe spokesperson indicated that investigations are currently underway into the causes of the accident.\n\nAccording to EFE, the remains of the funicular have not yet been removed from Cal\u00e7ada da Gl\u00f3ria, the slope where it derailed, being completely destroyed on one side.\n\nThe police maintain a cordon on that street to prevent access to the device while they carry out investigations.\n\nFounded in 1885, the Gloria Elevator connects Restauradores Square with Bairro Alto and the S\u00e3o Pedro de Alc\u00e2ntara viewpoint, one of the most visited in the Portuguese capital.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lisbon.- The number of fatalities in yesterday’s accident on the Gloria Elevator (Elevador da Gl\u00f3ria), a well-known tourist funicular in the center of Lisbon, has risen to 17, following the death last night of two of the injured, among whom are people of various nationalities such as Spanish, French, Italian, Canadian or Portuguese. In statements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":481374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21e5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/2c722fa64ad7944c5edf544b18a94d3a943034a1w-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/2c722fa64ad7944c5edf544b18a94d3a943034a1w-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}