Res­i­dents of Bar­rack­pore are ex­pect­ed to turn out in their num­bers this evening for a can­dle­light vig­il in mem­o­ry of sev­en-year-old An­gel­i­ca Saydee Jo­gie, whose life was trag­i­cal­ly cut short in a jet ski in­ci­dent in To­ba­go last week.

The vig­il, or­gan­ised by the Be­liev­ers As­sem­bly Church and the Satya­narayan Hin­du Tem­ple in col­lab­o­ra­tion with mem­bers of the com­mu­ni­ty, will be­gin at 7 pm at the Cot­tage Road Junc­tion. From there, par­tic­i­pants will walk in a solemn pro­ces­sion to the home of An­gel­i­ca’s fa­ther, Arnold Jo­gie, where a short in­ter­faith ser­vice will be held.

Or­gan­is­ers say the event is in­tend­ed not on­ly as a trib­ute to the young girl, but al­so as a mo­ment of uni­ty and re­flec­tion for a griev­ing com­mu­ni­ty. Res­i­dents have been in­vit­ed to bring can­dles or deeyas as they ho­n­our An­gel­i­ca, who has been fond­ly de­scribed by rel­a­tives and friends as a “dear­ly de­part­ed princess.” Stu­dents of San Fer­nan­do TML Pri­ma­ry School are al­so ex­pect­ed to at­tend the vig­il.