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Rapper Cardi B pledges to pay burial costs for victims of NYC high-rise fire

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Rapper Cardi B has offered to pay the burial costs for all 17 people killed in a fire in a New York City high-rise earlier this month.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Wednesday that the rapper had offered the financial relief for victims of the Jan. 9 apartment fire in the Bronx, the borough where the Grammy-winning artist grew up.

Many of the victims had ties to Gambia, and their families said they planned to bury them in their West African homeland. The mayor’s office said Cardi B has committed to paying the expenses associated with repatriating those victims. 

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cardi-b-burial-costs-1.6320683?cmp=rss.

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