A fire kills two men in Lisbon – Portugal

A fire that broke out at 2 am in the attic of a building at No. 68 Rua dos Correeiros, in Baixa de Lisboa, caused two deaths. The victims are two men over 60 years old.

The alert was given by a PSP agent at 02:00. Firefighters were able to prevent the fire from spreading to nearby buildings and the flames were declared out at 03:00. Already in the work of the suite, the corpses have been discovered. One of the men was well known in the area, where he worked as a shoemaker and lottery salesman. "He was called Eduardo, he was 68 years old and everyone knew him here."

He walked with a crutch since he fell for a few months on the stairs and he was hospitalized for a long time ", he said CM Cristina Martins. With regard to the cause of the fire, the trader guarantees that the man "did not smoke".

The fire made the building uninhabitable and at least one resident of the third floor, a stranger, was expelled, and yesterday he asked the help of the camera technicians and the person in charge of the protection. Civil. In addition, a shoemaker who had the store in the building was prevented from carrying on his business. "They said that the building was going to be closed and we do not know when we can go back in. I do not know how I'm going to do it to keep working," he said to CM Vítor Teles.

In the adjoining building, four residents were removed during the fire but were able to return.