Witnesses describe the fatal fat of Lisbon

Eyewitnesses said that after 18:00 on Wednesday, it was immediately when a vehicle in Gloria, famous in Lisbon, was destroyed around the curve of critical streets packed with gravel, crashed into a building, and eyewitnesses collapsed.

“The lost control,” Helen Zhao, who was at the BBC, told the BBC that the transportation was “lost control”, as it descends at the utmost speed and crashes on its side.

She said the matter seemed to be a bomb, followed by “Full frightening silence … There was black smoke on the field.

She described people bored and crying, while operating others to help.

“It was terrible,” she said. “I was shaken.”

The police are still investigating the accident case, which killed at least 16 people and injured about 20 people, some of which are critically, near Avenida da Lebad in Lisbon in the Portuguese capital.

The video verified by the BBC shows the yellow and white train that shattered the building on the hill curve, with another train stop at the bottom. People run to the scene of the accident.

The 140 -year -old grove vehicles, which work on electric motors, are attached to a cable that enables one to travel down while the other walks hard, each other passes shortly to the three -minute trip.

The witnesses described how the transport was shattered near the bottom of the hill, which began to climb, a short distance before the top of the upper cart at the bottom of the slope and in the building.

Rasha Abdo was traveling in the lower cart when “there was no brake in our cable, as it was quickly, with acceleration, such as the lack of control.”

She said that it stopped with a “very difficult” blow and people were shattered with each other.

Abel Estefiz, a resident of Lisbon, was in the lower transport with nearly 40 people when he saw the other “he went down very quickly.”

“I shouted to my wife,” he told the BBC.

Mrs. Zhao, who was originally from Canada but visited Lisbon, heard a loud screaming and saw the lower cart making a “difficult stop” at the end of the tracks.

She saw the black debris and heard people screaming while the driver rushed to open the gates at the entrance.

“People jumped from the window of this tram,” she said. “As this happened, I saw the tram incident colliding with the building adjacent to the subway restaurant.”

Mrs. Abdo said that her husband jumped with her son, and she was about to do so, but by that time the other vehicle had already shattered.

Another witness was running to help the lower cart – before seeing the other as he was “out of control.”

“We only have time to escape, our role is our backs and running,” they told Sic Notícias News Outlet. “He fell and hit the building at a high speed.”

The Teresa de Avo said the cart “hit a brutal force and collapsed like a cardboard box,” he told the TV channel that it seems that he had “not brake.”

Tourist guide Mariana Fiorido was among those who rushed to the scene to try to save people.

“I started climbing the hill to help people, but when I got there, the only thing I heard was silence.”

Ms. Figueireo said that she initially believed that the second wounded was empty, but when the ceiling was pulled “she began to see the bodies.”

“We immediately tried to call ambulances and firefighters for help,” she said, adding that the local community, including drivers and store workers, with help.

“Many people were crying around me. They were very afraid. I was trying to calm people – asking their names, where did they come from.”

She said what she saw “very difficult to describe it.”

“It was very bad. Big tragedy.”

Some tourists told the BBC that they had almost took the penis at the time of the accident.

Eric Baker told the United States, but Lisbon’s visit on a BBC vacation discussed with his friends who took the cable and took pictures at 18:00 and 18:01, but decided to return to their hotel instead.

They walked about 60 meters away and they heard a loud collision noise “like a fall rock, like a vacuum truck that dropped a load of rocks” at 18:02.

They turned to see the dust coming out of the alley about 45 meters behind them and walked to see what happened. Initially, he thought the train was at the bottom that fell, until he turned and saw the other train that was above him, and realized “the size of what happened.”

His photo shows the yellow and white train, a group of metal, on the narrow angle of alley under the maturo restaurant mark, with the other train at the bottom of the hill under it.

“The people (they were) walk and run to try to help,” he said. “The terrible tragedy, our ideas, and our prayers go out to families and survivors.”

Participated in additional reports from Alex Akorkt, Bernadet Makagu, Marina Costa and Alice Cody