Hundreds of mourners overflowed a Bronx mosque Sunday for funeral services for 15 of the people killed in last week’s horrific apartment building fire — the deadliest blaze in the city in three decades.
Hundreds of attendees who couldn’t fit inside the the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx watched a live stream of the somber proceedings from a tent set up on E. 166th St.
“These funeral caskets are here because they lived in the Bronx,” said Sheikh Musa Drammneh. “We are here because we lived in the Bronx. People are dying because they lived in the Bronx.”
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Hundreds of mourners overflowed a Bronx mosque Sunday for funeral services for 15 of the people killed in last week’s horrific apartment building fire — the deadliest blaze in the city in three decades.
Hundreds of attendees who couldn’t fit inside the the Islamic Cultural Center of the Bronx watched [...]
