Lisbon

Lisbon funicular crash initial report reveals litany of failings

A preliminary report says a cable that broke on the Glória funicular last month had never been certified, and mentions other failures.

Four employees of a non-profit organisation and a transport worker are among those who died.

Sixteen people died when the funicular crashed into a building in the Portuguese capital.

Heather Hall, an instructor at South Carolina's College of Charleston, was in Lisbon for a conference when she died in Wednesday's funicular crash.

The rest of the mechanism worked properly, says a preliminary statement into the crash which killed 16 people.

Kayleigh Smith and partner Will Nelson described as "selfless" and "caring" .

By the time Sonia Silva arrived at the stop, the funicular had crashed and her friend Sandra was dead.

At least 16 people died after a carriage on the city's famous Glória hillside railway derailed.

It is unclear what caused the crash in which 16 people died and more than 20 were injured, including many foreign nationals.

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