Photos: Minnehaha Academy joins in prayer after blast

Minnehaha Academy prayer service
Minnehaha Academy president Donna Harris sits with her family, including husband, Rick Harris, during the service.
Matthew Hintz for MPR News

Hours after a gas leak triggered an explosion that devastated its upper school campus and killed two people, members of the Minnehaha Academy community gathered in a chapel on its lower school campus.

At one point during the service, school president Donna Harris took to the front of the crowd, still wearing a hospital band around her wrist, and sang.

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