As if yesterdays explosion, displacement and damage aren’t enough, some people are suffering the kind of terrible heartbreak that no amount of repairs can fix.
The scene of the explosion at a propane facility (reported HERE on YWN) is directly across the street from Mt. Sinai Cemetery, a burial site that was badly damaged in the explosion.
Many gravestones were overturned and some destroyed when the huge propane tank went up in flames early Sunday morning. The devastation left behind on the hallowed ground could take weeks to clean up. And that poses a problem for those who have reason to be there.
A funeral was supposed to take place there on Sunday and the distraught family hoping to bury their loved one has now been told by officials that “they’ll just have to wait,” adding to their heartbreak.
The cemetery has confirmed it will be closed until at least Wednesday and with a plot already pre-arranged, there’s nowhere else for the bereaved to go.
It’s yet another sad dilemma in an already troubling case that may have already claimed two lives and left at least one other family trying to cope with a loss of their own awaiting answers that have yet to come.
(Source: CityNews)
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At the risk of seeming insensitive, Boruch Hashem that the explosion took place in the esrly morning, and not when the family was gathered there.
for dozend of non-observant living in the area, they involuntarily got a taste of Tish A’bav