Grenfell Tower survivors ‘terrified after being offered rooms in high-rise hotel’ – while others are housed ‘hundreds of miles away’
SURVIVORS of the Grenfell Tower blaze have told how they're being offered "rooms in high-rise hotels" while others say they are being housed "hundreds of miles away".
The traumatised residents are said to be terrified of entering another tall building similar to the one which turned into a hellish inferno early Wednesday morning.
She said: "They wanted to put him in a building which is a high-rise building. He doesn't want to put his children in a high-rise building - would you?
'They have been trying to re-house them in the building but they [the survivors] do not want to go in it.
"He freaked out, he said he does not want to put my children in that building.
"The wife said: 'I don't want to go higher than the first floor'."
"If this is accurate it must be addressed without delay."
Meanwhile, the Government has promised a £5million assistance package will be earmarked for those affected by the blaze.
This will include emergency supplies, food and clothing for those who survived the fire thought to have claimed the lives of some 58 people.
Yesterday, First Secretary of State Damian Green also pledged to cover "further expenses" for the victims on top of this fund.
He told Radio 4: "Obviously one imagines there will be further expenses of various kinds, that of course we will meet."
She announced a £5 million fund for emergency supplies, food and clothing during a meeting with survivors of the disaster.
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