Chilling final words of family-of-five trapped on 17th floor of Grenfell Tower
A FAMILY-of-five's heartbreaking phone calls to loved ones as flames engulfed Grenfell Tower have been revealed.
Komru Miah, 82, his wife Razia Begum, 65, and their children, Abdul Hanif, 29, Abdul Hamid, 26, and Hosna Begum Tanima, 22, huddled together in their bathroom on the 17th floor to escape the fire.
The Bangladeshi family, believed to have moved in to the west London tower block last year, are all feared dead as dozens more are still unaccounted for.
Mr Miah's nephew Abdul Rahim has revealed how relatives received increasingly desperate calls from the trapped family shortly before 2.30am.
Mr Rahim, who said he spoke to his cousin Hosna, told : "Her desperate prayers are still ringing in my ears.
She said: 'We are all in the bathroom now, and there is no way for us to escape now. Pray that we don't have a painful death'."
Mr Rahim said all members of the family's phones went silent shortly after that conversation.
Hosna was due to get married on July 29.
The Miah family have another son, Mohammed Abdul Hakim, who lives nearby with his wife and children.
Friends and relatives continue to appeal for any reports of their whereabouts.
Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi
The Italian couple, both 27, who have been confirmed dead, spent their final moments telling their far-away parents they loved them with Gloria telling her mum: "Thank you for what you have done for me."
Marco courageously attempted to play down his fears bu the engaged lovers eventually told their desperate families they could see the blaze raging up the stairs.
A lawyer for their relatives has said their last phone call has left the couple's parents with no hope they would survive the tragedy.
The duo of architecture graduates moved to London just three months ago to find work and plumped for the 23rd floor flat after falling in love with the views across the city.
But their new home would prove the end of them when the inferno engulfed the high rise block.
Gloria called her family at 3am saying a fire had broken out and she and her fiance were waiting for help.
Her grieving dad told Italian newspaper Il Mattino di Padova: "They wanted to go down but said they could see flames going up the stairs and the smoke was more and more intense."
Moments after she rang the phone line cut out and her father said he made hundreds of calls to this daughter after that but to no avail
Marco called his family twice at 3:45am and again just over 15 minutes later.
His dad Giannino told the paper: "In the first call Marco told us not to worry, that everything was under control, that basically we must not worry.
"He was trying to minimise what happened, probably not to unsettle us.
"But in the second call – and I can't get this out of my head – he said there was smoke, that so much smoke was rising.
"We were on the phone until the last moment … At 4.07am he told us their apartment was flooded with smoke and that the situation had become an emergency.
"The communications broke down and from that moment on we no longer had any contact. The phone didn't pick up again."
The Trevisan family lawyer Maria Christina Sandrin said: "I've heard the recording of Gloria talking to her mother and there is no hope to find them alive.
"She said goodbye. She said, 'Thank you mother for what you have done for me'."
Zainab and Jeremiah Dean
Young mum Zainab Dean called her brother as flames engulfed the 14th floor flat she lived in with her two-year-old son Jeremiah.
Her brother Francis, 47, recalled how a fireman told him to tell Zainab he “loved her” before the phone cut out.
He said: “My sister called me to say there was a fire in the tower. She said there was fire everywhere so I put clothes on and got here as fast as I can.
"It was about 2am and I was sleeping, I spoke to her but all she could tell me, she was crying and saying there was so much smoke.
"We just spoke about the fire and she said she was told to stay where she was. I told her to leave by the stairs but she said she had been told to stay inside her flat.”
He revealed that a firefighter borrowed his phone to speak to Zainab.
Francis, 47, said: “He told her to keep calm and that they were coming to get her. He kept saying that to her again and again. But then he handed me the phone and said, ‘Tell her you love her’.
“I knew then to fear the worst. The phone went dead and I could not talk to her.”
He lost contact with his sister at around 4am and no one has heard from her or her two-year-old son since.
Friend Yvonne Frazer said: "She's a beautiful girl and her son is so cute.
"We've been to the hospitals, the places where people are bringing food and drink, called the helpline, but we can't find her, I can't imagine what she must have been going though.
"She was told to stay by the fire brigade but she's young enough to be able to run down, she might have been able to get out but we don't know if she has."
At least 30 people have been confirmed dead after the fire ravaged the West London tower block on Wednesday morning, but officials fear the death toll could go past 100.
Harrowing stories have emerged of families separated as they fled the horror blaze and terrified residents saying their goodbyes over the phone as flames engulfed the building.
As the death toll rises, here are the missing loved ones being frantically searched for.
Isaac Shawo
Genet Shawo hasn't seen her young son Isaac since she left him with a neighbour as the family tried to escape the flames.
She, her husband Paulos Petakle and their two sons Isaac and three-year-old Lucas, were running to safety when they became separated.
Devastated Genet says her neighbour lost his grip on the boy inside the building in West London yesterday morning.
Tragically she said that the last thing her son told her was that he "didn't want us to die".
Genet told The : “I was helping my neighbour to put towels on his children, and started helping them down. I had put a wet towel already on Isaac.
“My neighbour said he would hold him and bring him down. But when I got outside I realised Isaac wasn’t there.
";My neighbour said he had lost hold of him inside and couldn’t find him. It was so dark, you couldn’t see anything in the smoke."
The desperate mother has been searching hospitals and health centres in a bid to locate the missing boy.
But a man thought to be their neighbour has claimed online that he managed to save the lad's younger brother but could not keep hold of Isaac.
Johnny Reg posted: "Please if you see this little boy his name is Isaac Paulos 5 1/2 years old I managed to save his little brother not him pleas contact me many thanks."
Nura Jamal, husband Hashim Kedir and their three children
Nura Jamal, husband Hashim Kedir and their children Yahya, 13, Firdows, 12, and Yaqub, six, are believed to have been in their apartment close to the top of the tower block when the inferno took hold.
New posters appealing for help in finding Firdaws and Yahya were put up near the block yesterday afternoon.
A heartbreaking picture showed the pair in climbing hats on a PGL holiday specifically for children.
Firdaws and Yahya attended Solidarity Sports, a local youth charity and organiser Sean Mende, 36, said: "I have known the children and the family for more than four years, both kids really enjoyed football and were both really intelligent and articulate.
"Firdaws was really good at art, she was very sensible and a responsible girl.
"Yahya was very endearing and had a good sense of humour, they were all very smiley children.
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"I last saw Yahya during Easter and he came to play football.
"I saw Noura lots at the pick up and drop off times, she was a very sweet and kind lady and always very grateful for us looking after her children.
"She went out of her way to thank us and that was very rewarding to get her support."
Sean added: "As far as I know the whole family of five are missing, I have heard of a lot of children who come here who were caught up in the fire.
"But it is really good to see the whole community pulling together.
"Yaqub was the liveliest of the three kids, he was a bit too young so he didn't come to our projects but he would come with Noura to pick up the other two.
"He was very lively and smiley."
Farah Hamdan, Omar Belkadi and their six month old baby
Farah Hamdan, Omar Belkadi and their six-month-old baby are missing.
The couple's relatives have scoured hospitals across the capital and were able to locate the couple's two daughters Malek and Tamzin.
But their parents and sibling are still missing.
Farah’s mum Rakia Hamdan said: “We can’t find them. We’ve been to all the hospitals and we’ve been searching all day but we still haven’t found them. We just want to know they are safe."
Jessica Urbano, 12
Jessica Urbano was last seen on the 20th floor of the tower block.
The schoolgirl's aunt said she last called her "desperately worried" family at 1.39am as she hid in a fire escape, but she was cut off.
Her aunt Sandra Ruiz said: "She was with a group of people in the fire escape, in the fire stairs, they live on the 20th floor and my sister-in-law was just coming back from work, as was my older niece.
"Jessica called her to say this has happened and she was only a few minutes away.
"That's the last they've heard of her."
Sandra said Jessica was in the flat on her own but her dad, who has escaped, also lives in a flat a few floors down.
Sandra added: "She would have been in her bed clothes and she will be very, very, very scared. We're just desperate to find her.
"My brother and my sister-in-law have been trying to speak to the authorities but obviously they are concerned with the immediate problem of getting people out.
"They are not giving much information."
On Thursday Jessica's uncle Carlos Ruiz said: "We have just been trying everything - searching all the hospitals, twice, three times over.
"We haven't heard anything yet.
"We're aware of other families in the same situation - just waiting."
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Cousin Natalie Urbano has since said that there had "been sightings" of her young relative before tweeting: "MESSAGE ME PLEASE, my cousin was alone and lives at 176!"
She said her family had raced to hospitals around the capital to track her down - but to no avail.
Tony Disson, 65
A great-grandad thought to have died on the blazing block’s 22nd floor said in his final call: “Tell my sons I love them.”
Dad-of-four Tony Disson, 65, pleaded for help in a string of frantic conversations, saying he was trapped in his bathroom.
The ex-market trader’s phone fell silent at around 4am. Eldest son Lee, 47, said: “People called my dad and said, ‘Put a blanket over your head and get out’.
“He said he couldn’t as he was trapped and the floor was too hot. A friend rang at 4am and one of the last things he said was, ‘Tell my sons I love them’.”
Local Kadelia Woods, 20, said: “We saw his flat go up. He was screaming, ‘I don’t know what to do’. It was horrible.”
Mohamednur 'Mo' Tuccu, 44
Mo who was heading to Grenfell Tower to break the Ramadan fast with his wife Amalamedin and three-year-old Maya.
They lived on the 19th floor of the building, reports
Mo texted his cousin at around 9pm, but he has heard nothing since.
Sheila Smith, 84
Adam Smith appealed for information about his 84-year-old mother, Sheila.
Sheila is believed to have been living at flat 132 in the building, reports The .
Nura Jamel
Friends of Nura Jamel said that she had contacted them from the building as the fire took hold.
Hibo Yussuf, 35, a friend of the missing woman, told the Telegraph: “We’ve heard that Nura’s daughter is in hospital but hasn’t been able to get hold of her mum.
"Nura called one of her friends to say, ‘Forgive me, the fire is here, I’m dying.’”
Choucair family
Five members of the same family are still missing after the Grenfell fire ripped through the high-rise building.
Mum Nadia Choucair, 30, dad Bassem, 32, and three daughters, Mierna, 14, Fatima, 11, and Zieanab, three, were in the 22nd floor when the blaze broke out.
Nadia's sister, Sawsan Choucair, 42, has not spoken to her relatives since the night of the blaze and is desperately searching for her family, posting pictures and visiting hospitals.
She is also looking for her mum Sirria Choucair, 78, who lived with Nadia as well.
Sawsan called her sister Nadia, a teaching assistant at Avondale Park primary School, when she discovered the blaze was raging and heard her frantic screams for help with her daughters trying to escape as the blaze took hold of the 24-storey block.
Sawsan said: "They were screaming and shouting, that's all I could hear in the background.
"I could hear two of them shouting 'get out' and try and find an exit or something. It was just awful.
"I was staying with a friend so I was not in the block at the time.
"I woke up at around 2am up to eat because of Ramadan and saw what was happening so I called my sister.
"The last few days have been absolutely horrible, I've not heard anything from the since the day it happened, no clues or pictures.
"There's no information. The lack of information has been terrible. We just want to know what's going on, we need to know who is alive and who is dead."
Hesham Rahman, 57
Hesham lived on the 20th floor of the flats.
His family last heard from him at around 3am when he said he could smell smoke.
They said he has diabetes and would have struggled to get down the stairs.
Noha Baghdady shared a picture of her brother Hesham on social media, saying he lived on the 20th floor of the tower block.
She said her nephews were "currently searching hospitals" and added: "I'm feeling so helpless all we can do is pray he is safe and well."
Rania Ibrham, 30
Rania, believed to be a mum of two, uploaded a harrowing Facebook Live video as she appeared stuck at the top of the tower block, and friends have not heard from her since.
In the footage, she can be seen seeking help in the smoke-covered corridor of the block before going back into her home and looking down on the street below from her balcony.
Friend Rahmana Rashid posted a picture of her and two young girls on Facebook saying: "Rania Ibrham my friend is missing from the Grenfill Tower, if you have seen her or have any news on her pls contact me."
Another friend, named only as Maseen, told the MailOnline: "My friend lives on the top floor with her two children who are just three and five years old."
"I received a Snapchat video from Rania at 3am just after the fire started and I haven't heard from her since," she added.
"She lives on the top floor and her husband was not home because he is on holiday."
Abdel Salam, 75
Friends of Abdel Salam, 75, believed he died after ringing his sons saying “I can’t breathe”.
He was trapped in the 23rd floor and was overcome by the smoke and was unable to get out.
Idris Wagdi, 50, described Abdel as a "leader of the community" who had lived there for 40 years after moving from Morocco.
He added: "He will be sorely missed, everyone appreciated him and he did so much for the Muslims in this community.
"It's very sad. His sons were the last to hear from him."
Mohammed Lariche, 44, a friend of Abdel's, said: "His sons had been to the mosque and they had seen the fire at about 1.30am."
Fathaya Alsanousi, 70s, Abu Feras, 38 and Esra Ibrahim, 35
Fathaya, her son Abu and daughter Esra are also missing after the fire.
Their friend Suhair Sharif, 55, said the trio were stuck in their 23rd floor flat, reports .
Ali Yawar Jafari, 82
Mr Jafari was confirmed missing by his family to the Telegraph.
His son said he was with his wife and daughter in the lift when it stopped on the 10th floor.
He told the paper: "There was too much smoke and he couldn't breathe and he got out of the lift and then the doors shut and it didn't stop again till the ground floor."
Marjorie Vital, 67, and son Ernie, 43
Mum and son Marjorie and Ernie Vital lived on the 16th floor of the tower block.
Friends are still searching for the pair in hospitals and appeals to find them have been launched.
One simply said: "Missing: Marjorie Vital" with a picture of a her in a white hat.
Berikti Habtom, 35, and son Buroke, 12
Berikti's sister Arsiema Alula said Berikti and her son live in the block and have not been in contact, reports the .
Steven Power
Animal loving dad-of-five Steven Power was unaccounted for after telling family trying to rescue him "I'm staying here with the dogs”.
Relatives said he had two mutts, believed to be Staffordshire Bull Terriers, who had been his pride and joy.
His sister Christine Elcock, 62, said the family were desperate for news.
Steven's daughter managed to get out safely but did not know where her dad had gone.
Raymond 'Moses' Bernard, 65
A family friend has confirmed to the Press Association that Raymond, known to friends as Moses, is also missing after the fire.
Mariem Elgwahry, 27, and mum Suhar
The pair lived on the 19th floor of the block, friend Emma Evans claimed.
She said nobody had heard from Mariem since 2.30am on Wednesday.
Missing Mariem is understood to be a friend of singer Rita Ora’s sister, Elena, with her photo shared by a mutual pal.
Rita helped the relief effort in the area where she grew up and said on Instagram: “This is my neighbourhood. I can’t believe this is happening. I used to play in that block.”
Abdulaziz Wahabi, wife Faouzia and children Nurhouda, Yassin and Medhi
The family-of-five believed to have lived on the 21st floor have not been heard from since the blaze, reports.
Mr Wahabi's sister said the last time she saw the family they were waving from the window after telling her there was too much smoke to exit.
Mohamed 'Saber' Neda, 57
The family of father Saber said he has not been seen since he told his wife Shakila, 45, and son, Farhad, 24, to flee the building while he stayed behind.
He was last heard from when he made a frantic call to say there was "no help" coming.
The dad's nephew Reshad Habib, who lives in the Netherlands, said: "We are all trying to find him.
"He was last heard from at 3.30am when he told his wife and son to leave him. He said that they had to get out.
"He said they should go and he would follow.
"We all don't know the exact reason why he waited behind, but we think he was injured or something.
"They were both taken to hospital. We don't know how they are.
"We haven't heard anything from my uncle since."
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He said the family had lived in a top-floor flat there for 20 years.
He said: "We got a call when the fire started. He said there was a big fire at the flat and that there was no help at the moment. That was at 2.20am.
"His wife and child are OK. I have talked briefly to his son.
"My auntie and him are in different hospitals from each other in a stable condition.
"We just hope that they will find him."
Friend Ariana Neumann Rodge posted on Facebook: "They are called the Nedas and are the most wonderful family of Afghan Brits who have worked with us for many years.
"They lived on the 20th floor and Mohamed was last seen on the stairwell injured and helping neighbours."
Maria Del Pilar Burton, 65
Maria Del Pilar Burton and her husband Nicholas were caught up in the inferno.
Nicholas has woken up in hospital and appealed for help to track down his missing wife.
He is certain the 65-year-old got out of the building but is concerned for her wellbeing as she sufferes from Alzheimer's disease.
Dennis Murphy
Dennis's family fear he is missing after becoming trapped on the 14th floor of the building.
Stevan Racz shared a post seeking information about his uncle saying: "We haven't heard anything since. Can anyone with any information contact me please."
One commenter on another post seeking Mr Murphy wrote: "I've been around asking everyone, going to the centres, no one's seen him."
Ligaya Moore
The Philippine Embassy has appealed for information about Ligaya Moore.
Ms Moore is believed to have been living on the 21st floor of the tower block.
Senator Joel Villanueva said her mobile number could not be reached.
Her grandson, Nico Purificacion said: "Our family loves her so much. She's very fun to be with despite her age.
"So innocent yet very straightforward. She's been in London for a very long time, she visits us here in the Philippines once in a while."
Hamid Kani
Hamid Kani, 61, is believed to have lived on the block's 15th floor.
Relatives of the Iranian have been tweeting appeals for information about his whereabouts.
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Sakineh Afraseiabi and Fatima Afraseiabi
Sakineh and Afraseiabi have not been heard from since the blaze ripped through the tower.
Their relatives have issued appeals for information on Facebook.
Lucas James
The family of Lucas James, 12, have been frantically searching hospitals for the youngster.
His sister told reporters her brother had been visiting a friend living on the 17th floor.
His family, who also lived in the tower, were rescued by firefighters.
What we know so far
- At least 30 people have been confirmed dead but the death toll is feared to be more than 100 - with many people still missing
- The first victims have been named as Syrian refugee Mohammed Al Haj Ali, 23, and 24-year-old Khadija SayeThe Prime Minister has promised a full public inquiry into the disaster and police have launched a criminal investigation
- The blaze on Wednesday night is thought to have been sparked by a faulty fridge but police don't believe the fire was started deliberately
- Experts warned the fire was spread by cladding panels which are fitted to countless buildings across Britain
- Residents were seen jumping from upper floors in scenes reminiscent of September 11 and horrified witnesses told of babies being thrown from windows by desperate mothers
- It was revealed the block had only recently undergone a £10million refurb and still had no sprinkler system installed - but designers insisted the refurbishment work complied with building regulations
- Residents raised safety concerns four years ago, but were ignored
- Celebrities and ordinary Londoners have united to provide food, clothes, money and shelter for survivors
Dozens are injured and at least 30 are dead after a blaze tore through the 24-floor Grenfell Tower in Ladbroke Grove overnight.
Tearful onlookers watched on from the edge of a police cordon as they waited for news of family members inside.
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