The Bronx apartment building that was devastated by a deadly fire Sunday had been a beloved home for many immigrants from The Gambia for years, the West African country's ambassador to the US told CNN.
Around 19 people were killed in the fatal blaze that occurred in a residential apartment building in the Bronx in New York City, authorities said. More than 60 were injured — some with life-threatening conditions, according to city officials."I think a lot of Gambians who came here, they stayed there before they moved anywhere else. This was kind of a first port of call, this building. It's a building Gambians have a lot of attachment to," Ambassador Dawda Docka Fadera said.
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NYC mayor: This is going to be one of our worst fires in history 01:15The US is home to a fledgling Gambian diaspora community with around 8,000 Gambians immigrants.Fadera traveled from Washington, DC, to New York after learning of the fire, which he says has devastated a close-knit community not only in New York but in West Africa as well.Read More"Gambia is a very small country, 2 million people. Everybody knows everybody. We are all related.
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