First Funerals Held for Two Siblings Killed in Bronx Fire | NBC New York
Prayers and the compelling need to bury the dead filled a Bronx mosque Wednesday, as a bereaved community began saying goodbye to those lost in New York City’s most devastating fire in decades.
Among those still awaiting funeral rites are a 2-year-old boy, a mother who died with three of her children, a family of five, and a husband and wife whose four children are now orphans. In all, 17 people died, including eight children.
Two victims — Seydou Toure, 12, and his sister Haouwa Mahamadou, 5 — were remembered Wednesday during funeral services at a Harlem mosque.