‘Devastated’: Crowds throng funeral service for 15 Bronx fire victims

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‘Devastated’: Crowds Throng Funeral Service for 15 Bronx Fire Victims

NEW YORK — A line of black hearses began pulling up outside the doors of the Islamic Cultural Center in the Bronx just after 10 a.m. Sunday. They maneuvered past throngs of distraught mourners who had flocked to the mosque to say a final goodbye to friends, children, parents and cousins killed in a fire that took the lives of 17 members of a close-knit Gambian community.

Aminata Sillah, 42, had arrived early. She laid a blue prayer rug on the ground in the frigid morning air, tugging anxiously at her boots.

 

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