One of the three British victims of the Lisbon tram crash may have been confused with a German man mistakenly reported as dead because he was wearing a Bundesliga football team top.

William Nelson, 44, has been named as one of the UK nationals killed along with his girlfriend Kayleigh Gillian Smith, 36, and an 82-year-old man.

Portuguese police revealed yesterday a 46-year-old German man said on Thursday to be among the dead was in fact alive and recovering in hospital.

His three-year-old son was also pulled alive from the wreckage alongside his partner who remains in hospital. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video

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Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha claimed the confusion could have occurred because Wil

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