Apartment fire victims mourned in mass funeral: ‘People are dying because they lived in the Bronx’

NEW YORK — More than a thousand community members filled the blocks outside the Islamic Cultural Center in the Bronx on a bitterly cold Sunday morning, streaming inside and into overflow tents to remember victims of an apartment fire days earlier. Inside, community leaders and local officials prayed over caskets draped in black — and called for change to ensure such a tragedy never happens again.