Brakeman confirmed among the dead as investigation begins into funicular crash
The death toll in the crash of a famous Lisbon funicular 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 did not provide their names or nationalities, saying that their families would be informed first.
