One Swiss national among the injured in Lisbon funicular crash

Eleven foreigners were among the injured in Wednesday evening's deadly funicular crash in Lisbon, authorities said. Keystone-SDA

The death toll from the derailment of a funicular railway in Lisbon was raised to 17 on Thursday morning after two people died from their injuries overnight, the head of the city's civil protection announced. Twenty-one people were injured, including a Swiss citizen.

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Eleven foreigners were among the injured, said Margarida Castro: two Germans, two Spaniards, a Frenchwoman, an Italian, a Swiss, a Canadian, a Korean, a Moroccan and a Cape Verdean. The nationalities of the deceased will be announced at a later date.

Earlier on Thursday morning, Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter expressed the country’s “deepest sympathy” to the Portuguese people following Wednesday evening’s funicular accident.

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“Switzerland’s thoughts are with the victims and their loved ones affected by the tragic derailment of the Glória funicular railway in Lisbon,” Keller-Sutter wrote on social media platform X.

Translated from French with DeepL/gw

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