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Bronx church mourns members lost in crash

State police investigate the scene of a fatal

Photo credit: AP | State police investigate the scene of a fatal accident 55 miles north of New York City. A passenger van carrying members of a church flipped over on the New York State Thruway on Saturday, killing at least six people and injuring eight others, authorities said. (Sept. 18, 2010)

Their arms held high in the air, their voices raised in songs of faith with an up-tempo Caribbean beat, members of a tiny Bronx church Sunday mourned their bishop, pastor and four members killed in an upstate crash.

The sounds reverberated on the street outside Joy Fellowship Christian Assemblies, a one-story brick storefront church on East Gun Hill Road, where more than 100 members gathered...

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