Overview

• Authorities say 16 people were killed and 21 injured when the Elevador da Glória derailed and struck a building just after 6 p.m. Wednesday in central Lisbon.
• Investigators completed their examination of the wreckage and will publish an initial technical assessment Friday, while police aim to deliver a preliminary report within 45 days.
• Portugal’s attorney-general reported eight victims identified so far — five Portuguese, two South Koreans and one Swiss — and officials said the injured include multiple nationalities, with a three-year-old among them.
• Carris said the funicular underwent a full maintenance program last year and daily visual checks, opened an internal probe, and halted Lisbon’s other funicular lines for inspections.
• Officials have not determined the cause; firefighters reported a detached cable, but authorities cautioned against speculation as inquiries continue, and the transport union named brakeman André Jorge Gonçalves Marques among the dead.