Family, friends and community members held candles and prayed Sunday for the woman and child who died in a Flint home explosion last week.
The explosion occurred around 9:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 22, in the 3900 block of Hogarth Avenue, between Nedra and Walton avenues, on the city’s west side. A 4-year-old girl and a 55-year-old woman were killed in the explosion and fire that followed, authorities have said. Officials have not yet released the names of the victims.
Candles were placed around photos of the two victims of the explosion as family, friends and loved ones embraced each other in the parking lot of St. Pius X Catholic Church at 3139 Hogarth Ave. on Sunday, Nov. 28.
Seneca Barnes, the great aunt of the child who died, led a prayer Sunday.
“Dear heavily Father, we are calling on you tonight and in every other moment ... we come as humbly as possible, begging you for strength,” Barnes said.