- Wednesday, April 24, 2024
By: Lauren Codling
SURVIVORS of London’s Grenfell Tower fire, and friends and relatives of the 71 people it killed, held vigils and prayed together as they marked the first anniversary of a tragedy that still haunts Britain. Grenfell Tower, a social housing block that was home to a close-knit, ethnically diverse community, was engulfed by flames in the middle of the night of June 14, 2017, in the country’s deadliest domestic fire since World War Two. The disaster, which occurred in one of London’s richest boroughs, prompted a national outpouring of anguish over social inequalities, poor quality public housing and neglect of immigrant…
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