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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Laura Parnaby

Grenfell: Londoner waited ‘weeks’ for deaths of six relatives to be confirmed

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A Londoner who lost six close relatives in the Grenfell fire has recalled “being taken from trauma to trauma” during a desperate search for them at 11 hospitals on the day of the blaze.

Hisam Choucair told the Grenfell Tower Inquiry that he waited “weeks” for his family, including his youngest niece, Zainab, who was just three years old, to be formally identified as having perished in the fire.

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