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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Emine Sinmaz

‘My body shakes even now’: how Grenfell survivors were failed in the days after the tragedy

A woman wearing a hijab wipes tears away
Maryam Adam, a relative of one of the victims and a resident, gives a testimony at a press conference in London after the final report was published. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

Maryam Adam said her whole body shakes when she recalls the horror of the Grenfell Tower fire and its immediate aftermath.

She was three months pregnant when she escaped the inferno and stood outside aghast, watching the flames rise up the 24-storey block in west London as her neighbours screamed for help.

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