Two British-Bangladeshis among Grenfell Tower fire deaths, London believes

Two among the 79 people killed in June 14’s fire in a London tower block are “believed” to be British-Bangladeshi nationals.

The Bangladesh High Commission in London on Monday released their identity quoting the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

It said the Foreign Office on Monday quoting the London Metropolitan Police Service said two among those died were “believed to be dual British/Bangladeshi nationals”.

They were identified as Husna Begum, born in 1995, and Rabeya Begum, born in 1952. Both of them lived in the same apartment - 142 Grenfell Tower -, though their relations was not mentioned in the statement.

But they are likely to be mother and daughter as bdnews24.com earlier reported that a Bangladeshi family have remained missing since the fire gutted their 24-storey apartment building in London.

British newspaper Mirror on June 23 also reported that three young siblings chose to stay and die with their parents in the fire rather than leave them to die alone on the 17th floor.

Rabeya was identified as mother while Husna Begum as daughter. Hanif, 26, and Hamid, 29 are the other siblings of father Kamru Miah’s family.

The siblings spoke to relatives on the phone and explained their decision to stay in an emotional conversation more than two hours after the blaze began.

The children told them that there was no way they could leave their mother and father.

Grenfell Tower is located in a pocket of social deprivation within the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, one of Britain's wealthiest areas.

The fire has led to national soul-searching about inequalities and neglect of the poor.

Police, earlier, said the death toll of 79 could still change if anyone reported as missing was found alive, or if anyone was found in the ruined tower who had not been reported as missing.