Lisbon funicular crash report finds likely cause of tragedy

Lisbon funicular crash report finds likely cause of tragedy

The Lisbon funicular crash that killed three Britons and 13 others was likely caused by an issue with a cable connecting the streetcar’s two cabins, Portuguese authorities said. A further 21 people were injured, including five seriously, when the popular tourist attraction derailed in the centre of the Portuguese city on Wednesday night.

Theatre director Kayleigh Smith and her partner Will Nelson, a lecturer at Manchester’s Arden School of Theatre, have been named as two of the three Britons who died in the incident, with a third victim yet to be named. Also among the dead were five Portuguese nationals, two Canadians, two South Koreans, one American, one French, one Swiss and one Ukrainian.

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