Syrian Refugee Is Among Victims of London Fire<br />"Mohammed was on the phone for two hours with a friend in Syria, waiting to be rescued." "When the fire reached his flat<br />on the 14th floor," the statement added, "Mohammed bid his friend goodbye, saying that the fire had reached him.<br />He asked his friend to pass on the message to his family." Friends say Mr. Alhajali had planned to return to Syria when the war was over,<br />and was studying civil engineering at the University of West London.<br />Abdulaziz Almashi, who said he met Mr. Alhajali at a Syria Solidarity Campaign<br />event, described him as "so lovely" and recalled how they became fast friends.<br />"It’s a big loss for me, for our friends and for Syria." Another of Mr. Alhajali’s brothers was also living in Britain,<br />but he had not seen most of his family for several years, as they are still in Syria.<br />On Thursday, a charity said that Mr. Alhajali, 23, had died in the huge fire that ravaged the Grenfell Tower apartment building a day earlier.<br />Almashi said that The hardest thing for me to think last night was, who is going to tell his mum, who is going to tell his father?
