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Portugal funicular crash toll reduced to 16 dead: PM

Lisbon train crash toll rises to 17 dead, 21 injured
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Portuguese authorities on Thursday said the Lisbon funicular disaster had killed 16 people and left five seriously injured, lowering the previous death toll by one.

Portugal’s Prime Minister Luis Montenegro said in giving the new toll that the accident on Wednesday evening was “one of the biggest tragedies in our recent history”.

The civil protection service said only one person had died late Wednesday after being taken to hospital, having previously reported two.

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