“I missed Lisbon, a Funicular travel that killed my friend”

As Sonia Silva was preparing to leave the job on Wednesday night, she was asked to help her in a quick task.

This meant that she missed her usual funicular trip on a slope with a friend who works at their home from an office in the center of Lisbon.

When she arrived at a stop shortly later, Funicular crashed and her friend died.

“When I arrived there, it was a tragedy,” she said.

Sixteen people were killed on Wednesday night in Lisbon when his iconic 140-year-old Gloria funicer thwarted and crashed into the building. The Portuguese Prime Minister called it “one of the largest human tragedies in our recent history.”

Many of the killed were foreign nationals, including three British people whose identities have not yet been announced. Police notice that the five killed were Portuguese -and four of them worked in the Santa -Kas -Kas -Misericórdia charity, located at the top of the hill.

The service took place on Friday at the church near the headquarters of the charity, honoring the dead workers as a result of the catastrophe. The service was crowded and people filled the passages and any other available space.

When they left, colleagues cried and supported each other when they tried to comprehend what happened. A few said the BBC that they used to regularly use a food as part of their fare.

Sitting on a bench on the street, Sonia said she worked in a charity for eight years and used a food every day.

“I can’t express it (how I feel) is very difficult. I am grateful, but at the same time I’m very, very angry because my colleagues and many people died,” she said.

She said she would go to work with her colleague Sandra Coel every day.

“I loved her very much because I always took with her a comer – going home and in the morning. It’s very difficult because I will no longer see her,” she said through tears when her colleagues comforted her.

On their trip, she said that two women would be gossip and talk about their days.

“We would talk about colleagues, work, everything. We met in the morning and when we finished,” she said.

Others around the church also mourned the loss of friends and tried to process what happened.

“It’s awful, we’re devastated. It’s hard to work at this point,” Lourdees Henrikes said.

“We always think about our colleagues and wondered what” they suffered? “They can be here with us.

“It can be any of us – we all used this kind of transport, and we felt very confident,” said Tanya, another employee of the charity.

Rui Frank, a city adviser whose close friend and former colleague Ald Matias died in a wreck on Wednesday, said he was shocked.

“She was approximately at my age. She had a family, children, and I didn’t imagine if it would happen to my family. She was a great person … with a very solid way to act in the world,” he said.

Mr. Franco said he was “already angry” when he first learned about the deadly disaster, “when I realized that I knew that people were involved, anger (becoming) overwhelming.”

While investigating the cause of the catastrophe, there were many speculation among the mourning.

“It has always been overcrowded,” one said and the other blamed poor service.

The leader of the railway union of the Feltrance railway staff claimed that some workers complained that the problems with the cable tension, which would carry, that the cars had complicated the braking.

“Even the planes sometimes fall out of the sky. There are accidents,” the other woman said.

A few said the BBC that regardless of the reason, they could imagine to use the food again.

“I told everyone that I’m no longer going to use it,” Sonia said before heading to the office, circled by friends.