A 51-year-old man died and a 28-year-old was seriously injured on Monday after a crane collapsed at a construction site in Eiras, Coimbra. Emergency services, including a Medical Emergency and Resuscitation Vehicle (Viatura Médica de Emergência e Reanimação or VMER), confirmed the death at the scene. Authorities are currently investigating the cause of the accident.
Crane collapse in Coimbra leaves one dead
Monday, 27 April 2026AI summary
Context & Explainers
The VMER (Viatura Médica de Emergência e Reanimação) is an emergency medical vehicle staffed by a doctor and a nurse, designed to provide advanced life support at the scene of an accident or medical crisis. These vehicles operate under the national emergency medical institute (Instituto Nacional de Emergência Médica or INEM) and are dispatched to stabilize patients before transport to a hospital.
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