Death toll from Elevador da Glória accident rises to 17

The death toll from Wednesday's accident in the Glória elevator has risen to 17, the director of the Lisbon Municipal Civil Protection Service, Margarida Castro Martins, announced today.

According to the official, of the 38 people affected by the accident, 15 died on Wednesday and 23 were transported or traveled by their own means to hospitals, two of whom ended up dying during the night.

There are now 17 deaths and 21 injuries.

The injured, 12 women and seven men, are of at least 10 different nationalities: four Portuguese, two Spanish, one Korean, one Cape Verdean, one Canadian, one Italian, one French, one Swiss and one Moroccan, with four injured whose nationalities have not yet been identified.