Last Sunday, January 1, 21-year-old Sophia Duarte lost her life in a fire at a Nigerian restaurant located in the building where she was staying in the south of the British capital.
At the scene, British authorities found the body of a young woman in an apartment block of a residential complex that was damaged by a fire in the Calabar region of Nigerian restaurants on Old Kent Road in south London.
According to the “My London” news website, a naked man jumped from the balcony of a house in an attempt to survive, while another man and a couple managed to escape the fire – which consumed most of the building in about two minutes. .
Alda Simos, a friend of Sofia Duarte, wrote on a page where a fundraising campaign was created to help the family pay for the funeral of the young woman who moved to the building, now destroyed, and ended up visiting her boyfriend. The only one who cannot escape.
“She loved life, our queen, Sofia,” recalled a friend of the young Portuguese woman, who was helping the victim’s relatives say goodbye “she deserved.”
On Sofia’s day, when a friend called her to inform her that he had seen a publication on social networks with Sofia’s photo, front of a woman in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
A Portuguese woman who used to be a “bartender” aspires to be a prison guard and help rehabilitate prisoners. However, Sofia’s main dream is “to win, so that her mother will be proud of her.”
“She’s a superstar and she keeps me going,” Sophia’s close friend Kyle Stewart told The Evening Standard.
“She was wild, funny and knew how to live. She walked, traveled, had already been to Dubai and loved the warm climate. She was always between London and Lisbon”, he insisted, adding that she was “perfect”. person”.
As of now, the cause of the fire is still unknown, but an investigation is underway.
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