The fire which tore through a 24-storey town block in London killed six people but police expect that number to rise.
BBC Africa’s Mohanad Hashim, who has been to scene in west London, says that he was told many people living in the block were of African descent – with parents from Morocco, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. Some of those are still missing.
He took a picture of people from the area trying to find out what had happened:
Mohanad adds that the community is coming together with mosques, churches and community halls becoming shelters.
Talking of the tragedy, one British-Somali woman told him that she was distressed that there was little definite information about what was going on:
We need to know what’s happened… how can a whole building go up like that? You heard people screaming for help… and you can’t do anything about it.”
