Fire engulfed a 27-story Grenfell Tower housing block in central London in the early hours Many Muslim Residents

At least six dead, more than 70 injured in London tower block inferno

Muslims who were awake for Ramadan have been hailed as heroes after helping to save their sleeping neighbours from the horrific fire in Grenfell Tower 

Residents who had stayed up for Suhur - the meal between 1-2am before Muslims begin fasting again - saw the inferno break out just before 1am

Many residents who gathered outside the smoldering ruins of the building said the fire had been caused by a faulty fridge in one of the flats, but the fire service told MailOnline it could not confirm the reports at this stage

At least London fire latest: Twelve confirmed dead in Grenfell Towersix dead, more Fire engulfed a 27-story housing block in central London in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least six people and injuring 74 others in an inferno that trapped residents as they slept.

Some residents screamed for help from behind upper floor windows, some tried to throw children to safety, as flames raced through the high-rise Grenfell Tower block of apartments in the north Kensington area after taking hold just before 1 a.m.
 
“We could see a lot of children and parents screaming ‘Help! Help! Help!’ and putting their hands on the window and asking to help them,” Amina Sharif, a witness, told Reuters.
 
“We could do nothing and we could see the stuff on the side was falling off, collapsing. We were just standing screaming and they were screaming.”
 
Another witness, Saimar Lleshi, saw people tying together sheets in an attempt to escape.
 
“I saw three people putting sheets together to climb down, but no one climbed down. I don’t know what happened to them.”
 
“Even when the lights went off, people were waving with white shirts to be seen,” Lleshi said.
 
More than 200 firefighters, backed up by 40 fire engines, fought for hours to try to bring the blaze under control.
 
By mid-day, London police confirmed six people had been killed and cautioned the death toll was likely to rise.
 
One woman lost two of her six children as she tried to escape from the block, a witness said.
 
“I spoke to a lady that lives on the 21st floor. She has got six kids. She left with all six of them. When she got downstairs there was only four of them with her,” Michael Paramasivan, a block resident, told BBC radio.
 
Other witnesses spoke of children, including a baby, being thrown to safety from windows high up.
 
“In my 29 years of being a fire fighter, I have never ever seen anything of this scale,” London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton told reporters.
 
More than 12 hours after the fire broke out, the building was still smoldering, though the it was not in danger of collapsing.
 
London Mayor Sadiq Khan said the fire raised questions over the safety of high-rise blocks like Grenfell Tower.
 

The local council of Kensington and Chelsea, which owns the block, said it was focusing on supporting the rescue and relief operation. It said the causes of the fire would be fully investigated.than 70 injured in Lon

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