Lisbon tram crash victim found ALIVE after he was mistakenly declared dead

A victim of the Lisbon tram crash who was initially declared dead has now been found alive.

The German dad-of-three was initially reported as having died in the accident in front of his son. His devastated family had been informed the German dad was among the dead at São José hospital, with his wife seriously injured.

The family, from Hamburg, turned up at the Institute of Forensic Medicine yesterday after they were told he was one of the 16 people killed when the iconic funicular derailed and crashed into a hotel corner building on Wednesday night in Lisbon. However, they were unable to identify his body.

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A local officer then took the family to the hospital in the Portuguese capital where the injured were and he was discovered to be among them.

Police are still trying to identify three victims. Investigators have had to revise the number of fatalities twice.

Based on evidence found at the crash site, the victims could include two Canadians, an America, a German and a Ukrainian national, Luis Neves, the head of the national investigative police, said.

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