LISBON, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Flags flew at half-staff in Lisbon on Thursday after at least 17 people were killed and 21 injured in a crash of a hillside funicular railway popular with tourists, while ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lisbon is mourning 16 people who were killed in a crash of a picturesque hillside streetcar popular with tourists on Wednesday.

MADRID (Reuters) -A Lisbon resident who thought he was going to die as a funicular car hurtled towards him had a narrow escape when it crashed into a building metres away, killing at least 17 people.

At least 16 people were killed and several injured after the carriage of a funicular – a type of railway that travels up and down steep slopes – derailed in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon on ...