Families devastated - Deaths are a warning of our frailty

SOMETIMES words on a page are unequal to the events they are used to describe.

They, no matter how carefully chosen, paired and placed, are too silent, too coldly moderate. We, sadly, are at that dark and almost incoherent point this morning.

Yesterday’s seven violent deaths, four young children, two women and a man, represent something so out of kilter with our everyday lives that they are almost outside our capacity to imagine or even comfortably absorb.