An error in reporting has been corrected after authorities mistakenly declared a German national to be deceased in the Elevador da Glória accident in Lisbon last Wednesday. The Polícia Judiciária (PJ) reported that the man is alive and currently hospitalized at Hospital de São José.
The PJ clarified in a statement released on Friday, “The German citizen reported yesterday as a fatal victim was determined overnight to be hospitalized at Hospital de São José.”
Details emerged that the victim’s family came to Portugal for body identification at the Institute of Forensic Medicine but could not confirm their relative’s identity. While in the city’s streets, they showed a photograph of their relative to a police officer, leading them to Hospital de São José, where the unidentified injured person turned out to be the German citizen.
Additional reports confirmed the German man’s wife, and the mother of the three-year-old boy who survived the accident, was also injured and taken to Hospital de Santa Maria.
This morning, the PJ confirmed with scientific collaboration from the National Institute of Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences, that the nationalities of all 16 fatalities in the accident include five Portuguese, two South Koreans, one Swiss national, three Britons, two Canadians, one Ukrainian, one American, and one French national.
The Elevador da Glória accident in Lisbon, which occurred at 6:04 PM on Wednesday on Calçada da Glória, resulted in 16 fatalities and injured over 20 individuals from at least ten different nationalities. Among the injuries are four Portuguese, two Germans, two Spaniards, one Korean, one Cape Verdean, one Canadian, one Italian, one French, one Swiss, and one Moroccan. These include 12 women and seven men, aged between 24 and 65.
The Brazilian Consulate in Portugal also reported two Brazilians injured in the accident. Álvaro Santos Almeida, executive director of Portugal’s National Health Service (SNS), noted during a press conference that these two are men, one residing in Portugal. Both were discharged from the hospital.
Currently, six of the injured remain hospitalized at São José and Santa Maria hospitals, with no change in their condition overnight, according to health unit reports to Lusa news agency.
At Hospital de São José, four remain hospitalized, with one in intensive care and three in stable condition. Hospital de Santa Maria has two patients; one in intensive care and another in the emergency observation unit.
