At least 15 people died after Lisbon’s historic cable car derailed.

Emergency services have been killed and 18 people have been injured after a wagon of Lisbon’s famous Gloria brains, and emergency services said.

Portuguese’s emergency medical service authorities say five of the injured people are serious. The rest of the 13, including children, suffered minor injuries.

Some people said they were previously trapped in the field. The authorities have been released since then.

Lisbon Market Carlos Moedas wrote on social media. “Lisbon is mourning. This is the tragic moment of the city.”

Emergency services cannot confirm their nationality, but they are one of those who have died.

It was unclear how many people boarded at the time of the cable railway accident and occurred near Avenida da liberdade around Wednesday evening at 18:05.

The video, which is widely shared on social media, has shown that bright yellow wagons are overturned and almost completely destroyed. Those who seemed to be full of smoke could see Running on foot.

One witness told the Portuguese newspaper observer that the vehicle was “uncontrolled without brakes.”

Teresa D ‘Avó said, “We started to run away because we thought that the (wagon) was down.

“But it fell around the bend and crashed into the building.”

According to the Civil Protection website, 62 emergency service personnel and 22 vehicles were placed on site.

Lisbon says it’s too early to determine the cause of this incident.

The transportation company, which operates Carris Carris, started the investigation and added that “all maintenance protocols” were respected.

Observador has reported that the cable is loosened along the railway path, losing control and colliding with nearby buildings.

At the level of Marcelo, Portuguese, the investigator, issued a statement that expresses “compassion and solidarity with the affected family affected by this tragedy.”

Ursula von der Leyen Chairman of the European Commission also sent a mourning to the victims’ families.

The cable car is a type of railway system that can move steep slopes up and down.

The two vehicles of the Gloria Folicular are driven by electric motors. They are attached to the opposite end of the transport cable, so when one person travels downhill, he can lift the other side and go up and go down at the same time.

Gloria Folicular is one of Lisbon’s most famous and tourist attractions. It opened in 1885 and electricity 30 years later.

The symbolic yellow vehicle is as important as a relief city as much as Lisbon. They sprinkle snakes on a lot of gravel roads.

This special crash takes about 275m (900 feet) in the restaurant, the plaza in the middle of the Lisbon, and a three -minute trip to the area in the area of ​​the area called Bairro Alto.

It and other brains are used by Lisbon residents, but are also very popular with tourists. At the end of summer, the Portuguese capital is actually very busy.