Shorouk Express Investigators added that the brakeman of one of the carriages applied the brakes, but that this didn’t have sufficient capacity to prevent the disaster. Both carriages had travelled only six meters after leaving their stations on Wednesday, around 6 p.m., when the cable connecting them snapped, the report said. Sixteen people died in…
Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch Three British nationals are among 16 people who died when the Gloria funicular derailed and crashed in Lisbon, Portuguese police have said. The British victims were an…
Shorouk Express At least 15 dead as Lisbon’s iconic Gloria cable car derails in tourist district On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch At least 15 people have died after Lisbon’s Gloria funicular railway derailed and…
