Whole families among more than 70 missing after Grenfell Tower fire

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>At least 70 people&comma; including children and entire families&comma; have been reported missing following the Grenfell Tower fire&period; The Press Association has verified 54 individuals are missing&comma; according to multiple reports from friends&comma; family and witnesses on the scene&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon; Sakineh and Fatima Afraseiabi<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sakineh Afraseiabi&comma; 65&comma; and her younger sister Fatima &lpar;age unknown&rpar; were on the 18th floor of the building and have not been seen since&period; A family member said they had tried numerous hospitals&comma; rescue centres and the emergency line but said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;No one can give you an update&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Khadija Saye and Mary Mendy<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Artist Khadija Saye&comma; 24&comma; who is currently showing her artwork in the Venice Biennale&comma; was in her flat on the 20th floor&comma; with her mother Mary Mendy&comma; who is thought to be in her 50s&period; Her friend&comma; artist Nicola Green&comma; said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re desperately trying to communicate with all the hospitals&period; &&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;re told some people have been rescued up to the 19th and 20th floor&period; She was on the 20th floor&period; Nobody has any information at this point&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Green told the Press Association that Ms Saye was last heard from at 3am when she was direct messaging from her flat&comma; as her phone was not working&period; Ms Green&&num;8217&semi;s husband&comma; Labour MP David Lammy&comma; also put out a plea to find Ms Saye&comma; tweeting&colon; &&num;8220&semi;If you have any information about Khadija Saye pls contact me&period; She is our dear friend&comma; a beautiful soul and emerging artist&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Jessica Urbano<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Twelve-year-old Jessica Urbano is still missing following the fire at the block&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ana Ospina posted an image of the young girl&comma; said to be about 5ft&comma; on Facebook&comma; saying&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Please continue to share the photo of my niece who has not yet found her&period; I know there are people who say they already found her&comma; but the reality is that there has been no news of her&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mrs Ospina told PA the young girl lived on the 20th floor&comma; adding&colon; &&num;8220&semi;She last spoke to her mum when she borrowed a phone and told her she was on the stairs with other people&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We then have had unconfirmed reports&sol;sightings of her outside of the flats and also being put into an ambulance&comma; but we have checked hospitals and no news&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Mariem Elgwahry and mother<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Emma Evans shared an appeal to find long-time friend Mariem Elgwahry&comma; who lived on the 19th floor of the tower block and was said to be missing with her mother&comma; reportedly called Suhar&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Ms Evans said Ms Elgwahry had last been heard from when she spoke to another friend in the tower block &&num;8211&semi; who was since confirmed safe &&num;8211&semi; at around 2&period;30am&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She added that she had been to a number of rescue centres in the area &&num;8220&semi;with no luck yet&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Ali Yawar Jafari<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ali Yawar Jafari&comma; 82&comma; is thought to be among those missing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;His son&comma; Hamid Ali Jafari&comma; said his father had lost contact with his mother and sister&comma; who lived with him in Grenfell Tower&comma; on the 10th floor&period; The younger Mr Jafari said he had been to several rescue centres throughout the day since first reporting his father missing on Twitter just before 8am&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Asked if he had any news since then&comma; he said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;No&period;&&num;8221&semi; According to the Telegraph&comma; Mr Jafari said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;He was with my mother and sister in the lift and she said the lift stopped on the 10th floor and he said there was too much smoke and he couldn&&num;8217&semi;t breathe and he got out of the lift and then the doors shut and it didn&&num;8217&semi;t stop again &&num;8217&semi;til the ground floor&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Raymond &&num;8220&semi;Moses&&num;8221&semi; Bernard<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A family friend confirmed to the Press Association that Raymond Bernard&comma; known to friends as Moses&comma; remained missing after the fire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Rania Ibrham and two children<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Believed to be a mother of two small children&comma; Rania Ibrham&comma; 30&comma; uploaded a harrowing Facebook Live video as she appeared to be stuck at the top of the tower block&comma; and has not been heard from since&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the footage&comma; 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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Friend Rahmana Rashid posted a picture of her and two young girls on Facebook&comma; saying&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Rania Ibrham my friend is missing from the grenfill tower&comma; if you have seen her or have any news on her pls contact me&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Another friend&comma; named only as Maseen&comma; told the MailOnline&colon; &&num;8220&semi;My friend&comma; Ranya Ibrahim&comma; lives on the top floor with her two children who are just three and five years old&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I received a Snapchat video from Ranya at 3am just after the fire started and I haven&&num;8217&semi;t heard from her since&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she added&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;She lives on the top floor and her husband was not home because he is on holiday&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Hesham Rahman<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Noha Baghdady shared a picture of her brother&comma; Hesham Rahman&comma; 57&comma; across a number of platforms&comma; saying he lived on the 20th floor of the tower block and had not heard any news since the fire broke out&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She said her nephews were &&num;8220&semi;currently searching hospitals&&num;8221&semi; and added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m feeling so helpless&semi; all we can do is pray he is safe and well&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to Sky News&comma; Mr Rahman&&num;8217&semi;s last contact with his family was at around 3am when he told them he could smell smoke&period; It was also reported that Mr Rahman has diabetes&comma; making it difficult for him to walk down stairs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Dennis Murphy<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Stevan Racz shared a post seeking information about his uncle Dennis Murphy&comma; who he said had called while trapped on the 14th floor of the building&period; &&num;8220&semi;We haven&&num;8217&semi;t heard anything since&period; Can anyone with any information contact me please&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; A comment on another post seeking Mr Murphy said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve been around asking everyone&comma; going to the centres&comma; no one&&num;8217&semi;s seen him&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Mohamed Neda<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A friend of missing Mohamed Neda&comma; Ariana Neumann Rodger&comma; posted on Facebook that &&num;8220&semi;his family are severely injured and in hospital and desperate to find out where he is&&num;8221&semi;&period; Zia Popal&comma; who described Mr Neda as his uncle&comma; also posted on the social network&comma; saying&colon; &&num;8220&semi;He was on the top floor of the building trying to help &lpar;people&rpar; and went missing since&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If anyone has links with emergency services please take a look at his photos and pass them on just in case anyone has spotted him&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We have already been to all &lpar;the five&rpar; major hospitals but they do not have him registered&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Anthony Disson<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Known as Tony&comma; the 66-year-old is reported to have last been in contact with his family at around 3am while he was inside the building&period; Lee Disson&comma; Tony&&num;8217&semi;s son&comma; posted an appeal for information on Facebook and said he was &&num;8220&semi;still praying for him&&num;8221&semi;&period; The appeal read&colon; &&num;8220&semi;If anyone has seen my Dad&comma; Tony Disson could they let us know&period; My heart goes out to all the people at Grenfell Tower&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Lee confirmed to the Press Association that his father was still missing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He is reported to have lived on the 10th floor and his wife Cordelia&comma; Lee and three other sons have been searching for him in hospitals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Abdulaziz Wahabi&comma; wife Faouzia and children Nurhouda&comma; Yassin and Medhi<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>All five lived on the 21st floor of the tower&comma; according to Mr Wahabi&&num;8217&semi;s sister&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Hana Wahabi told reporters&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I rang him and the fire had not reached the top of the block at that point&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;He said he had been told to stay inside&comma; stay in one room together and put towels under the door&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;I told him to leave&period; He said he was going to come&period; Then I called him and he said there was too much smoke&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;The last time I saw him they were waving out the window&period; The last time I spoke to his wife&comma; he was on the phone to the fire brigade&period;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A man claiming to be Yassin Wahabi&&num;8217&semi;s uncle told Sky News his nephew is being treated in hospital&comma; but posters and appeals for information remain on the scene and on social media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Mohamednur Tuccu<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Tuccu is missing along with his wife Amalahmedin and his three-year-old daughter after visiting relatives in Grenfell Tower&comma; his employer said&period; Mr Tuccu&&num;8217&semi;s manager&comma; chief executive of Red Consultancy Mike Morgan&comma; told Sky News&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Mo is a part of the family&period; He will have been with us for 10 years next month and is due to be awarded his decade milestone&period; We all just want to hear that he is OK&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Gloria Trevisan and Marco Gottardi<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The young Italian couple recently moved into the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower&period; Friends and family have appealed for information online after last hearing from the couple early on Wednesday morning&period; Ms Trevisan&comma; 26&comma; called her mother in Italy at roughly 3&period;30am on Wednesday to say their building was ablaze&comma; according to the Italian newspaper Corriere del Veneto&period; A lawyer for the Trevisan family told Italian media they have &&num;8220&semi;no hope&&num;8221&semi; to find their daughter alive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Ligaya Moore<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Embassy of the Philippines in London has appealed for information about Ligaya Moore&comma; 79&comma; who lived in Grenfell Tower&period; Family of Mrs Moore told PA she is diabetic&comma; and has lived in London for more than 40 years&period; Mrs Moore&&num;8217&semi;s grandson&comma; Nico Purificacion&comma; called her &&num;8220&semi;an admirable woman&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Our family loves her so much&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;She&&num;8217&semi;s very fun to be with despite her age&period; So innocent yet very straightforward&period; She&&num;8217&semi;s been in London for a very long time&comma; she visits us here in the Philippines once in a while&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; A Bangladeshi family of five<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Friends of a family of five who lived on the 17th floor are appealing for any reports of their whereabouts&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Bangladeshi newspaper the Dhaka Tribune named the family as Komru Miah&comma; 82&comma; his wife Razia Begum&comma; 65&comma; and their children&comma; Abdul Hanif&comma; 29&comma; Abdul Hamid&comma; 26&comma; and Hosna Begum Tanima&comma; 22&comma; citing a local official&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;A family friend told PA&colon; &&num;8220&semi;We are all just waiting and praying for some good news&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; The Belkadi family<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A family of five were among those who have not been heard from since being caught up in the inferno&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Mother Farah Hamdan and her husband Omar Belkadi lived on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower with their daughters Malek&comma; seven&comma; Tazmin&comma; six&comma; and Leena&comma; just six months old&period; After a day of frantic searching&comma; the two eldest daughters were found in hospital by family members with the help of a nurse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to reports&comma; the nurse had led them to the bedside of one of the girls after being given her description&period;nOnce there&comma; the relatives saw her sister in a bed nearby&period; One was in a coma&comma; the other sedated&comma; the Daily Telegraph reported&period; The fate of the remaining three family members remains unknown&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Berkti and Biruk Haftom<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Relatives are urgently trying to find Berkti Haftom&comma; 30&comma; and her 12-year-old son Biruk&comma; who live on the 18th floor of the tower block&period; They have not been seen since the blaze broke out and family have been waiting for news at the nearby St Clement&&num;8217&semi;s Church&period; Arsiema Alula said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;There&&num;8217&semi;s no information from anyone who has seen them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve tried the emergency number but they wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t give out any information&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We tried all the hospitals&comma; all six&comma; but there was nothing&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; The Choucair family<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nadia Choucair and her husband Bassem live on the 22nd floor with their three daughters Mierna&comma; 13&comma; Fatima&comma; 11&comma; and Zeinab&comma; just three years old&period; They have all been reported missing since the fire&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Friends of Mierna have shared pictures and posters around the area appealing for information&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;113705" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-113705" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;IMG&lowbar;2283&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;IMG&lowbar;2283&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"325" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-113705" &sol;><&sol;a><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-113705" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Hamid Kani<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Hamid Kani<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sixty-one year-old Hamid Kani lived on the 15th floor&comma; according to family&comma; but has no relatives in the the UK&period; &&num;8220&semi;All members of his family are here in Iran&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Mr Kani&&num;8217&semi;s niece&comma; Maryam Shahvarani&comma; told the Press Association&period; &&num;8220&semi;They are worried to death about him&period; She said he lived alone&comma; struggled with hearing problems and wore hearing aids&period; &&num;8220&semi;Please someone help us to have just a little information about his destiny&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Fathiya Alsanousi and children<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fathiya Alsanousi&comma; believed to be in her 70s&comma; has not been seen since before the fire broke out&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;People still can&&num;8217&semi;t get through to her&comma;&&num;8221&semi; read posters which have been placed in the area&period; &&num;8220&semi;Please keep an eye out&period;&&num;8221&semi; Friend Suhair Sharif told Mail Online Mrs Alsanousi lived on the 23rd floor with her son Abu Feras&comma; 38&comma; and daughter Esra Ibrahim&comma; 35&period; All three are still believed to be missing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>&colon;&colon; Nura Jamal&comma; Hashim Kidir and children<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A young family who reportedly lived on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower are also among the missing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Posters placed in the area appeal for information about two of the children&comma; Yahya and Firdous&comma; believed to be 13 and 11&period; But reports from friends in the area and from family on social media suggest parents Nura Jamal and Hashim Kadir&comma; as well as youngest child Yaqub&comma; are all still missing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sean Mendez&comma; 36&comma; who runs Solidarity Sports&comma; told the Mirror&colon; &&num;8220&semi;I have known the children and the family for more than four years&comma; 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