Church bells toll 26 times to honour Sandy Hook victims

Updated On: 22 December, 2012 08:24 AM IST | | Agencies

The chiming of bells reverberated throughout Newtown yesterday, commemorating one week since the crackle of gunfire in a schoolhouse killed 20 children and six adults in a massacre that has shaken the community ufffd and the nation ufffd to its core.

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Church bells toll 26 times to honour Sandy Hook victims

u00a0Dannel P Malloy gathered with other officials on the steps of the town hall as the bell rang 26 times in memory of each life lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Fallen angels: Pictures of victims of the school shooting are seen on roses at a roadside memorial in Newtown. Pic/AFP