Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Americans pour out for mourning of Sikh shooting victims

Americans poured out in hundreds to offer support and join solemn farewell prayers for the six victims of a shooting tragedy in a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek.
One by one, the mourners in barefoot stepped forward to bow down their heads to pay their last farewell at the mourning organised at a Gurdwara just 40-km from the scene of Sunday's bloodshed.
Dozens more stood in the lobby to register their support as there was no room for them to join the prayers.
The mourners, mostly white Americans, were touched when the grief-stricken Sikh community opened the doors of the Brookfield gurdwara to embrace hundreds who came to offer their support in the aftermath of the shooting.
"I came with my family to show our support to the grief-stricken people. It was a bad man who did the killings," a tearful Hope Bailey of Muskego told the local Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

with thanks : DNA INDIA : LINK for detailed news.

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