Investigators: 'Cable snapped before Lisbon funicular crash'

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  This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

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  I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Sunday the 7th of September these are our main stories.

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  Transport authorities in Lisbon say the funicular crash which killed 16 people this week was caused by a cable snapping.

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  you will be affected by this.

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  The authorities in Lisbon are still trying to identify some of those killed when a carriage on one of the city's famous funicular railways suddenly hurtled downhill and crashed.

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  The accident on Wednesday left 16 people dead and many more injured.

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  Now,

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  Portugal's National Transport Safety Office has issued a statement confirming that the main cable holding the carriage snapped.

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  Here's our correspondent in Lisbon, Alison Roberts.

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  This statement is a statement of the facts,

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  what the investigators were able to see on the face of things.

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  It's not, they're very clear, any conclusions.

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  So it's saying no conclusions can be brought from the list of facts that they have enumerated in this statement.

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