Several Israelis have been identified among those injured in Wednesday evening’s funicular crash in Lisbon, which claimed more than a dozen lives.
A total of 16 people are reported to have died, with 21 wounded, when the carriage derailed in a busy area of the Portuguese capital.
The country’s attorney-general has confirmed the nationalities of eight of the dead, five of whom were Portuguese, two South Korean and one Swiss.
One of the Portuguese fatalities has been identified as Andrew Marques, the brakeman who was at the helm of the carriage when the crash occurred.
Others killed are reported to include multiple British nationals, who have not yet been identified, as well as two Canadians, an American and a German.
According to BBC News, a three-year-old German boy was among those pulled from the wreckage alive, and his mother is among the injured.
The funicular railway is a popular tourist attraction and the crash occurred at the tail end of the summer season.
Investigators are still examining potential causes for the derailment. The carriage is understood to have careered out of control at a bend in the track and smashed into a nearby building.
Photos from the scene showed the metal structure in ruins, with its top section apparently ripped off.
A preliminary report into the reason for the derailment is due on Friday, per the country’s office for air and rail accident investigations, but one eyewitness reportedly told Sky News that it appeared that the brakes failed shortly the crash, while a report in The Telegraph suggested a broken cable may be to blame.
Portugal observed a day of national mourning yesterday, while Lisbon is in the midst of three days of municipal memorials.
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