Authorities are probing what the prime minister says it one of Portugal's "biggest tragedies". Photo: AP PHOTO

Police in Portugal say 11 of the 16 people killed when a funicular railway derailed were foreigners, as an initial investigative report examining what caused the popular Lisbon tourist attraction to crash was delayed by a day.

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The dead included five Portuguese citizens, three Britons, two South Koreans, two Canadians and one from each of France, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United States.

A German man also thought to have died in Wednesday's crash was found to be in a Lisb

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