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Crowds of mourners gather near the City Hall memorial site to commemorate the 156 people killed in a Halloween crowd crush, with public anger growing over one of the country's deadliest peacetime disasters. IMAGES
Dozens of people gather in Melbourne to hold a vigil for victims of a deadly nursery attack in Thailand. Mourners chant prayers along with Buddhist monks and lay tributes on stage. A former police officer killed 24 children -- 21 boys and three girls -- and 12 adults in a nursery in Thailand's northeastern Nong Bua Lam Phu province. Most died from a combination of knife wounds and gunshots, according to police investigators. IMAGES
A vigil is held in London's Kensington Gardens, near the Lebanese embassy, in honour of the victims of the Beirut blast. A cataclysmic explosion at Beirut port has sowed devastation across entire city neighbourhoods, killing more than 100 people, wounding thousands and plunging Lebanon deeper into crisis. IMAGES
New York, May 21 (EFE/EPA).-The New York neighborhood of Corona in Queens paid tribute on Thursday to the thousands of people who have died from COVID-19 with candles forming a heart, along with the names of dozens of the deceased written on paper butterfly wings and masks.At the vigil, organized by the NGO 'Haciendo Camino' (Make the Road), authorities were asked to help the city's most vulnerable population, such as the one living in this multi-cultural district, where the largest Latin American community in the Big Apple resides.(Camera: ALBA VIGARAY).FOOTAGE SHOWS THE VIGIL HELD AT QUEENS, NEW YORK, US.
Hundreds of people staged a candlelit vigil at the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip on Monday evening to pay their respects to the victims killed and wounded after a gunman opened fire from a hotel window into a crowd in what is being called the deadliest mass shooting in US history. According to the police, 59 people have been killed and a further 527 injured.