LISBON: Portuguese authorities have delayed until Saturday the release of their initial findings on what caused the fatal derailment of one of Lisbon’s famous funicular trains, which killed 16 people.
The report was originally set to be made public on Friday. But a spokesman for the GPIAAF air and rail accident investigations bureau told Portugal’s Lusa news agency late on Friday: “It is not possible to publish the report today.”
It was now expected to be released “sometime Saturday afternoon,” the spokesman said.
The report was only to give very early findings on the circumstances of the accident, which struck on Wednesday, with a more detailed preliminary report due “probably within 45 days,” the chief police investigator, Nelson Oliveira, said on Thursday.
Eleven foreign nationals were among the 16 people killed when one of Lisbon’s popular funicular trains crashed.
