The number of deaths in Lisbon climbs to 17 years and leaves the Elevador Da Gloria disaster, Portugal,

Lisbon Portugal was reeling on Thursday morning in the wake of an unprecedented catastrophe in the heart of its capital. Seventeen people were killed late on Wednesday afternoon when one of the electric streets of Lisbon – Sevenador Da Gloria Duniroman – She cares about her paths and moved to a building.

The counterfeit mountains, a type of tram usually placed on a permanent angle of running up and down a hill or mountain, carried people about 270 yards up and down a hill in the middle of Lisbon for more than a century. It is very popular with tourists, and the Associated Press said about half of the 21 people who were injured in the accident were foreign visitors.

Reuters news agency said that emergency services confirmed that three of the other wounded in Lisbon are subject to additional safety checks on Thursday after the deadly collapse.

Margarida Castro Martins, who headed the Civil Protection Agency in Lisbon, told reporters on Thursday that two people were transferred to the hospital after he died on Wednesday night, where they reached the death toll to 17.

The officials did not issue the names of the victims, but the rescuers said that there were foreign citizens among those who were killed.

Portuguese President Marcelo Ribello de Sosa offered condolences to the affected families, and the mayor of Lisbon, Carlos Moida, said that the city will be in mourning for three days.

“It is a tragedy like we have not seen before,” said Moida.

“A tragic incident … caused the irreplaceable loss of human life, which was left in the mourning of their families and benefited from the entire country,” the national government said in a statement.

This tram was still a pile of wet minerals surrounded by police collars on Thursday. It is usually full of visitors at this time of the year.

When the smoke was cleared over the debris on Wednesday, it revealed the scene in which the famous Sowtor Da Gloria was interested in about 800 feet under the sharp hill that was passed for 140 years before it went out of its course on a curve and crashed into a building.

Some spectators rushed to help after the accident, but others escaped in fear of noise and chaos.

“The only thing we can do is rotation and running,” said a man who saw the accident.

“It is a tragic, truly tragic situation,” Carla Gomez, the other local resident of the French News Agency, told Agence France -Presse.

For many tourists visiting Lisbon, a journey on the famous tram is a must. Millions of people make a trip for about four minutes every year.

Elevador Da Gloria works in the same way as Hill Side work throughout Europe and other places, with two cars connected to the ends opposing a circular cable – with one car rising, the other decreases. The monobone is operated by engines in each car, which is operated on electricity that is delivered through separate upper cables.

Local reports speculate that the basic cable may have been cut, although officials have not commented on the reports.

Cable failure and brake are among the most common causes of tram accidents.

Carris, the company that runs Enterador Da Gloria, said that regular inspections – including daily checks – have been implemented as required.

The disaster is now being investigated, which broke the magic of the quiet European capital.