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"People are dying because they lived in the Bronx," Sheikh Musa Drammeh, who led the memorial held at the Islamic Cultural Center in the Bronx, said per. "Their families will never ever see them again because they lived in the Bronx."
Women look out a window of the Islamic Cultural Center during the funeral at the Islamic Cultural Center. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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