LONDON: Six months after a fire ripped through the Grenfell Tower apartment block in London killing 70, survivors are traumatised and bitter, saying they have been abandoned to their fate. Her mother lived on the 23rd floor of the building in west London, but was not at home when the blaze struck on the night of June 14. “What have you put in place to ensure that these people don’t feel isolated, don’t feel left apart, don’t feel ignored?” Bolton asked. “My kids are not sleeping“, he added, while the blackened tower block looms over the neighbourhood as a constant reminder of the deadly blaze. Vassiliki Stavrou-Loraine, 66, lived opposite Grenfell Tower and knew many of the victims after 35 years in the neighbourhood.

Source: New Strait Times December 11, 2017 01:41 UTC