Portugal held a day of national mourning on Thursday after one of Lisbon's famous funicular trains violently derailed and killed 16 people, including foreigners, and leaving five seriously injured.
Here are the latest developments on what Prime Minister Luis Montenegro called "one of the biggest tragedies in our recent history".
The yellow Gloria funicular, a beloved symbol of the Portuguese capital, veered off a steep stretch of tracks Wednesday evening in one of Lisbon's most popular tourist spots, crashing into a building.
A woman interviewed by television channel SIC said the train, which can hold about 40 people, struck the building "with brutal force and collapsed like a cardboard box".
Images after the accident showed another funicular stopped on the tracks a few metres away on the tracks as tourists and onlookers watched, stunned.
Lisbon Mayor Carlos Moedas called the incident a tragedy the likes of which "our city has never seen" before. The identities of the victims were not immediately released.
Fifteen people — eight men and seven women — were killed instantly and one person died later in hospital, emergency services said.
Officials had said early on Thursday that 17 people had been killed, but they later corrected the toll and clarified that one person had died in hospital after previously reporting two.
More than 20 people were injured, including five who were in a serious condition, officials said.
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