The death toll in the crash of a famous Lisbon streetcar popular with tourists rose to 17 on Thursday after two of the 23 injured people died, an emergency services official said.

The dead were all adults, Margarida Castro Martins, head of Lisbon’s Civil Protection Agency, told reporters.

She didn’t provide their names or nationalities, saying that their families would be informed first. 7

Another 21 people were injured in Wednesday’s crash, she said.

They included Portuguese people as well as two Germans, two Spaniards and one person each from France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, Morocco, South Korea and Cape Verde, she said.

The range of nationalities reflected how big a draw the renowned streetcar was for tourists who are packing the Portuguese capital during the summer seaso

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