00:00Now to Portugal. We're starting to get more information about who was killed when a famous funicular in Lisbon derailed on Wednesday.
00:09A French-Canadian woman and a US citizen are now among those confirmed to have lost their lives, along with five Portuguese people and nine others.
00:17This Friday, the government's rail accident office is releasing the first investigative report into what happened, having examined the wreckage.
00:25And we can get more now from our correspondent, Sarah Morris, on the spot.
00:28Sarah, thanks for speaking to us. What's the scene looking like now?
00:35Well, Peter, you mentioned that wreckage. Look, behind me, overnight, the firefighters have removed a lot of that wreckage that was still on the streets, mangled.
00:47Those two carriages are no more. That is what remains of the Gloria funicular train, the streetcar.
00:56Now that is being taken away. The process of examining it will continue.
01:02But the scene here is still very much an emotional one, because yesterday we saw the first flowers come to be laid here to remember those victims.
01:14Of course, of course, 16 people killed and 11 nationalities have been affected.
01:20We still have six people in intensive care.
01:23This was really something that affected the Portuguese, who used that streetcar to get from one area of this hilly city to the higher end.
01:34But it was also used by tourists, and three million people use it every year.
01:41So it's a chance now to think about what has happened.
01:45We saw a moving mass yesterday evening at the beautiful Church of St. Dominique.
01:52And it was attended by the Prime Minister, Luis Montenegro, by the President, Marcelo Rebello de Sousa, and by the Lisbon mayor, Carlos Mueda.
02:04All of those men have promised that there will be answers to the questions that people obviously had about why this accident happened.
02:15Seeing that footage shot yesterday, of it completely demolished, it's hard to fathom how something like this actually happened when it's been running for so many years.
02:29Indeed, Peter, it's been running since 1914.
02:33And we're hoping that soon there will be information, some of those preliminary reports, to the investigations that are all underway.
02:42We know that there is an investigation by the judicial police.
02:46They could report in a month and a half, they have said.
02:49We've also got the Office for Transport of Portugal that says that they could put some information out as early as today.
02:59Lots of those reports will be preliminary because some people may face proceedings.
03:06If the prosecutors conclude that there was negligence, and we've had statements made by workers that the maintenance standards were reduced when there was outsourcing, that it should never have been privatised.
03:19But we've heard Karish also, the operator, yesterday defending itself, saying that it had doubled investment between 2015 and 2025,
03:30and that all the security protocols in maintaining and supervising that funicular had been met.
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