Pink light bathed the closed white casket of 13-year-old Ebba Morina, one of two young girls who died surfing atop a Brooklyn subway, as her grief-stricken family received a steady flow of mourners.
Atop the casket sat a huge, circular flower arrangement, while a slideshow played photos of the Upper East Side teen from infancy to adolescence.
The youngster’s family gathered Tuesday night at the Farenga Brothers Funeral Home in the Bronx, where more than a hundred mourners poured into the viewing room, and another two dozen or so gathered in a second room next door.
“It’s a terrible tragedy, she was a wonderful girl,” said one relative, who declined to give his name.
Ebba and her 12-year-old friend Zemfira Mukhtarov, became the latest in a wave of shockingly young risk-seekers to me