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15 June 2017, 09:14

Death toll rises to 12 in London's towering inferno

LONDON, 15 June (BelTA - Xinhua) - The death toll in a horrific fire that swept through a high-rise apartment block in London reached double figures Wednesday night, with the toll expected to rise.

By late evening, 12 people had been confirmed dead in the inferno at the 24-storey Grenfell Tower, home to between 400 and 600 Londoners living in the 120 apartments.

Around 80 more people have been taken to hospitals across London, some of them critically ill with severe burns.

The London Evening Standard reported many more of the tower block's hundreds of residents are still unaccounted for.

Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said he expects the death toll to rise, but so far no figures have been released to indicate the actual number of people still missing.

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