‘I missed Lisbon funicular commute that killed my friend’

Sonia Silva was preparing to quit on Wednesday evening, while a colleague was asked to help a quick mission.

This meant that he had missed his regular funicular journey down the hill with a colleague with a colleague.

Soon after he came to the stop, the funicular collapsed and his friend died.

“When I got there, it was a tragedy,” he said.

On Wednesday evening, sixteen people were killed in Lisbon when the iconic 140 -year -old Glória Fünikles came out of the rail and hit a building. The Portuguese Prime Minister described this as “one of the greatest human tragedies in our recent history”.

Most of those killed are foreign nationals, including three British people whose identities have not yet been disclosed. Police said that the killed five were the Portuguese people and that he was working at Santa Casa da Misericórdia aid organization on the top of the hill.

On Friday, he honored the workers killed in an accident in a church next to the headquarters of the charity. The corridors and other people who fill the existing areas are crowded.

Increasingly, their colleagues cried and supported each other as they tried to understand what happened. Many of them told the BBC that they used funicular regularly as part of their traveling.

Sonia, sitting on a bench outside, said that she worked in the charity for eight years and used funicular every day.

“I can’t express [how I feel] – Very difficult. I am grateful, but at the same time I am very angry because my colleagues and many people died, “he said.

He said that he would come and go with his colleague Sandra Coelho every day.

“I was very fond of him because I always got it with him and the morning with the mornings. Very hard because I won’t see him anymore,” his colleagues relieved him with his tears.

When they went to work, he said he would gossip about the days of two women and talk.

“We would talk about his colleagues, work, everything. We’d meet in the morning and when we finished,” he said.

Others around the church mourned the loss of friends and tried to work.

“We were terrible, ruined. It’s hard to work right now.” He said.

“We always think of our colleagues and said, ‘Did they suffer?’ We are wondering now.

“This could have been any of us – we all used this kind of transportation and we trust it.” He said.

Rui Franco, a member of a municipal council who was killed in an accident on Wednesday, a close friend and his former colleague Alda, said he was in shock.

“He was my age. He had a family, had children, and I can’t imagine what I’m going to be to my family. It was a great person… through a very solid acting in the world.” He said.

Mr. Franco said that when he first learned the deadly accident, he was “angry already”, then when I realized, I know the people concerned, anger [became] overwhelming”.

While an investigation into the cause of the accident continued, there was a lot of speculation among the mourning.

“It was always overcrowded, dedi someone said while accusing bad care.

Factrans, the leader of the Railway Workers Association, claimed that some workers complained that problems with the tension of the cable carrying cars make it difficult to brake.

“Even the planes fall from the sky sometimes. Accidents occur,” another woman said.

Many told BBC that they couldn’t imagine using funicular, regardless of the reason.

Im I told everyone I wouldn’t use it anymore, Son Sonia said, besieged by her colleagues before returning to the office.