'The hit was very hard': Eyewitness in second carriage shares video of crash moment

The moment a funicular railway carriage was involved in a fatal crash in Lisbon, Portugal, has been heard in a video filmed by a passenger in a second carriage.

The crash killed 16 people and injured more than 20 others.

Rasha Abdo was in the carriage at the bottom of the hill when she felt it beginning to move up the hill before it suddenly began sliding quickly back down.

Children can be heard screaming as the carriage appears to jolt.

Some passengers were hurt when the second carriage came to an abrupt stop at the bottom of the hill, she said.

A funicular railway on one of Lisbon's most iconic tourist attractions, the Glória funicular railway derailed and crashed on Wednesday.