Witnesses describe the deadly funicular disaster

It was only after 6:00 pm on Wednesday, when the transportation of the famous Gloria Fonchiku Lisbon came around the bending of a steep cobblestone street, crashed into the building and cocked, the eyewitness said.

“He got into the building of the tough force and fell apart like a cardboard box,” Teresa D’Avo on the Portuguese TV channel SIC, adding that it seemed to “had no brakes.”

Police still investigates the cause of the catastrophe, which killed at least 17 people, and more than 20 injuries, near critically, near Lisbon Ausnid to the Libero in the Portuguese capital.

A video proven by the BBC shows a broken yellow-white train on a hill bend changed to the building, and another train stopped below. People run along the slope to the scene.

Helen Chow, who from Canada and visited Lisbon, was in the base of Gloria, from where the trams rise to the Bayire Alto area when she said she heard a loud scream.

One tram “made a brutal stop, I saw black garbage, heard the passengers on this tram shouted … The driver rushed to open the gate to the entrance to the tram,” she said the BBC.

“People jumped out of the window of this tram … As it happened, I saw the tram tram in the building next to the subway restaurant.”

“It was awful … The sound was unlike everything I heard,” she added. “I shaken.”

Ms. D’Avava told the Portuguese newspaper, which was observed that the vehicle was “from control, without brakes”.

“We all started running away because we thought (transportation) was going to hit below,” she said. “But he fell around the bend and crashed into the building.”

Eric Pker, from the United States, but visiting Lisbon on vacation, told the BBC that he discussed with his friends who shot a cable car and photographed at 18:00 and 18:01, but instead decided to return to his hotel.

They went about 60 meters and heard a loud noise about the accident “like the fall of the rock, as a dump truck threw a lot of stones” at 18:02.

They turned around when the dust came out of the alley about 45 meters (148 feet) behind them and went back to find out what happened. At first he thought it was the train below until he turned and saw another train that was above him, and realized that “the magnitude of what happened”.

His photos show a yellow-white train, a tangle of metal, on the corner of a narrow alley under the plaid of the restaurant, and the other train on the bottom of the hill under it.

“People (were) rose and ran to try to help,” he said. “The terrible tragedy and our thoughts and prayers go to the families and survivors.”