A Brazilian is among the wounded in the derailment of the Gloria elevator, the famous cable car from Lisbon in Portugal, who left at least 16 deaths on Wednesday (3/9).
It was only 18:00 on Wednesday (3/9) when a cable car from the famous lift of Gloria in Lisbon skilled at the curve of a steep cobblestone road, he collided with a building and fell, according to eye witnesses.
The carriage “lost control”, at full speed and falling to the side, told Helen Chow, who was the base of the hill, to the BBC.
The sound looked like a bomb, he said, followed by a “frightening and complete silence … there was a black smoke like a tone. As soon as it was dissipated, you saw exactly what happened.”
People were desperate and cry, with others they ran to help, described.
“It was horrible,” he said. “I’m shaken.”
The police are still investigating the cause of the accident, which killed at least 16 people and injured about 20, some in serious condition, near Avenida da Liberdade, in Lisbon, in the Portuguese capital.
A Brazilian is among the wounded, according to BBC News Brasil the Consul General of Brazil in Lisbon, Alessandro Warley Candas.
A video controlled by the BBC shows the robust yellow and white tram against a building in the curve of a hill, with another train stopped in the end. People run in hills towards the scene of the accident.
The two 140 -year -old tram wagons, powered by electric motors, are trapped by a cable that allows you to go down while the other gets up, passing soon along the three -minute route.
Witnesses described that the wagon near the base of the hill, which was starting to climb, reversed just before the upper wagon descended from the slope and collided with the building.
Shortly before the accident, Chow, who comes from Canada and was visiting Lisbon, said he had heard a strong screaming.
He saw the lower wagon behind a few meters, overcome the white line where he stopped and made “a sudden stop” at the end of the tracks.
Chow saw black debris and heard people scream while the driver ran to open the entrance doors.
“People jumped from the window of that tram,” he said. “As soon as it happened, I saw the incident tram clashing with the building next to the subway restaurant.”
Abel Esteves, residing in Lisbon, was in the lower tram with almost 40 people when he saw the other “along the great speed”.
“I shouted to my wife,” we will all die here “, because I thought the tram was going towards us,” he told the BBC.
Another witness races to help after the lower carriage fell before seeing the other descending “out of control”.
“We just had time to escape, turn my back and run,” he told Sic NotÃcias. “The carriage fell and struck the high -speed building.”
Teresa D’Avó said that the tram “hit a building with brutal force and collapsed like a cardboard box”, Sic who said to Sic that it seemed “without brakes”.
The tour guide Marianna Figueiredo was among those who ran in place to try to save people.
“I started climbing the hill to help people, but when I arrived there, the only thing I heard was silence.”
Figueiredo said that he initially thought that the second tram was empty, but when the ceiling was torn, “he began to see the bodies”.
“We tried to immediately call ambulances and firefighters to help,” he added, adding that the local community, including drivers and shopkeepers, provided help.
“Many people cried around me. They were very afraid. I tried to calm people, asking their names and where they came from,” he said.
He said what he saw is “very difficult to describe”.
“It was very ugly. A great tragedy.”
Some tourists told the BBC that they almost took the tram at the time of the accident.
Eric Packer, who lives in the United States and visited Lisbon during his holidays, told the BBC that he spoke to his friends to take the cable car and took pictures at 18 hours and 18h01, but decided to return to the hotel.
They walked for about 60 meters and felt a strong accident “like a stone that falls, as if a tasted truck had knocked on a load of stones” at 6:02 pm.
They turned and turned the dust coming out of the alley of about 45 meters behind them and returned to see what had happened.
At first he thought it was the lowest train that fell until he turned and saw the other train that was above him, and then realized “the extent of what had happened”.
The photo that took shows the yellow and white train, a tangle of metal, at the corner of the Strait Vicolo under the sign of a metro restaurant, with the other train at the base of the hill under it.
“People approach and were running to try to help,” he said. “A horrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers are with families and survivors.”
Additional report by Alex Akhurst, Bernadette McCague, Marina Costa and Alice Cuddy
Source: Terra
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