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Twelve dead in Grenfell Tower blaze

Twelve dead in Grenfell Tower blaze

Twelve people have died in a west London tower block fire and the number of deaths are expected to rise.

Firefighters rescued 65 people from Grenfell Tower in north Kensington.

Eyewitnesses said people were trapped in tower block, screaming for help and yelling for their children to be saved.

Policing and fire minister Nick Hurd said checks are now planned on similar tower blocks.

The ambulance service said 68 patients had been taken to six hospitals across London, with 18 in critical care.

A further 10 patients made their own way to hospital.

It is understood that "several hundred" people would have been in the block when the fire broke out shortly after midnight, most of them sleeping.

Source: BBC

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