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The Syria Solidarity Campaign has paid tribute to Mohammed Alhajali who they say died in the Grenfell Tower fire.

In a statement, the group said: "We offer our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Mohammed Al Hajali and all those who died in the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June."

Mr Al Hajali was a Syrian refugee who came to the UK in 2014 and studied civil engineering at West London University, they said.

"His dream was to be able to go back home one day and rebuild Syria."

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A tower block that succumbed to fire in 2009 still has no sprinkler system admits Southwark Council leader.

Six people died after the fire at Lakanal House in Camberwell.

Labour Councillor Peter John told Martha Kearney: "We have spent £62m improving fire safety across our estate" but "the government hasn't given us a blank cheque" to carry out works.

Mr John said if the government increased councils' powers "to borrow against its housing revenue account" then they could do far more.

He added: "You do not hear of tragedies like this happening in private blocks...it's a scandal."

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Police and firefighters are using shields to protect themselves from debris, while they search rubble around Grenfell Tower.

Specialist dog units are being used to search for people in and around the tower.

Family and friends of those missing after the Grenfell Tower fire are appealing for information on the whereabouts of their loved ones.

Mariem Elgwahry, 27, is a marketing manager who is believed to have last spoken to someone at 02:30 BST on Wednesday.

Her friend posted a picture, external with the message: "Seeking any information on our missing friend. She was on the 19th floor."

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Ali Yawar Jafari, 82, lived on the 11th floor of Grenfell Tower with his wife and daughter.

His son Hamid says his father had a heart condition and had difficulty walking.

His daughter Nadia was visiting on Tuesday evening, and when the fire broke out she got into the lift with him.

But they separated on the 10th floor, and the family have not been able to contact him since.

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One family from the 17th floor has five people missing. Husna Begum and four other members of her family were last heard of at 03:00 BST on Wednesday.

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Hammersmith MP Andy Slaughter has said interim measures would be needed to ensure tower blocks were safe.

Welcoming the prime minister's announcement of a full public inquiry, the Labour MP said: "First, we do need that sense of urgency. We can have some provisional findings.

"People have raised issues to do with sprinklers; would sprinklers have stopped this fire spreading? Is cladding the issue here that led to the accelerated spread?

"It's a first world country where we have huge expertise in these areas, and it's just frankly unacceptable that we're still not implementing the lessons of Lakanal eight years ago, and indeed other fires."

Speaking in Westminster Hall, MP for Tottenham David Lammy said: "It is very important that the purview of the inquiry does not prejudice any other investigations and we understand the entire umbrella of activity that is going to take place in relation to this crime."

A poignant image from the Labour leader's visit to St Clement's Church, where volunteers have provided shelter and support for victims of the fire.

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London Fire Brigade's Deputy Assistant Commissioner Jane Philpott tells the BBC specialist teams are shoring up the tower block so it's safe for other fire crew to go in and continue their work.

Eight fire engines and 60 firefighters are still at the scene.

She says they are not expecting to find survivors at this stage, "but we will always, always continue to look".

Firefighters have now been to the top of the building, she says.

"The work going on now is much more painstaking. It's about safety - safety of crews, to enable us to be able to get in and search every corner of the building."

She says the firefighters who tackled the blaze in the early hours of Wednesday have returned to the scene "to find people's loved ones".

"They are exhausted. They have come back to work. They want to be able to finish this job, quite rightly."

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Many people are unaccounted for since the fire, including Mo Tuccu, a British national from Eritrea, who was visiting friends in the Grenfell tower with his wife and three-year-old daughter, to break their Ramadan fast.

Mike Morgan is the CEO of Red PR Consultancy where Mo has worked for the last ten years. He told Radio 4's World at One: "We've got current colleagues, ex-colleagues, people from all over the world contacting us who all remember Mo and love the guy... we're all desperately worried...and we'd love some good news".

Nick Hurd, who is police and fire minister, said: "The discussion we've had did, exactly as I expected, reflect... the deep profound shock that we all feel - not just in this house but across the country - about what has happened, what is playing out across our TV screens.

"If you've stood at the bottom of that building and looked up, nothing you've seen on the TV can prepare you for what you feel when you look up at that devastation and the sense that you feel of the terror that must've been felt during that night, and the quite extraordinary, protocol-breaking bravery of firefighters who went in there.

"That shock has been very well articulated."

"A number" of people die and many more are injured after a shocking fire in a London tower block.