Lisbon

Two Portuguese police chiefs detained as abuse scandal escalates, reports say

The case first emerged last year, involving allegations of torture, rape and abuse of power.

Claudia Andrade and her mother could not board a plane because of digital travel visa confusion.

A preliminary report says a cable that broke on the Glória funicular last month had never been certified, and mentions other failures.

Four employees of a non-profit organisation and a transport worker are among those who died.

Sixteen people died when the funicular crashed into a building in the Portuguese capital.

Heather Hall, an instructor at South Carolina's College of Charleston, was in Lisbon for a conference when she died in Wednesday's funicular crash.

The rest of the mechanism worked properly, says a preliminary statement into the crash which killed 16 people.

Kayleigh Smith and partner Will Nelson described as "selfless" and "caring" .

By the time Sonia Silva arrived at the stop, the funicular had crashed and her friend Sandra was dead.

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