Investigators have sifted through the wreckage of a streetcar in downtown Lisbon, trying to determine why the popular tourist attraction derailed during the busy summer season , killing 16 people and injuring 21, five of them seriously.

Portugal's attorney-general's office said on Thursday that eight victims had been identified so far: five Portuguese, two South Koreans and a Swiss person. The identities of the other eight were still to be determined, it said in a statement.

The Elevador da Gloria came off its rails during the evening rush hour on Wednesday when it was packed with locals and international tourists. Lisbon hosted about 8.5 million tourists last year, and long lines of people typically form for the short and picturesque trip a few hundred metres up and down a city st

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