How Many Died in London Fire? Anger Rises as Police Won’t Say for Sure<br />" she said, "but I do absolutely agree that there has been a purposeful attempt to trickle out the number of deaths, to not have any kind of overall figure in terms of people who may have died there." Ms. vonAhn and others working on the subject have concluded<br />that until they know for certain how many people lived in Grenfell, they may never know how many died in the fire. that I don’t subscribe to the conspiracy theory,<br />Ahmed Palekar, who has lived near Grenfell for many years<br />and said he knew countless people who have not showed up since the fire, was one of many locals who said he thought several hundred had died.<br />McCormack said that We are many months from being able to provide a number<br />that we believe accurately represents the total loss of life inside Grenfell Tower,<br />The Grenfell Fire Response Team said through a spokeswoman<br />that 117 families of survivors from the tower were receiving assistance, but it declined to say how many people that represented.<br />On Monday, after weeks of criticism, the police for the first time offered an estimate of the number of people who should have been in the building<br />that night — 350 — and said that of that figure, 255 had survived and 14 were not at home, which would imply that 81 people had died.<br />Surely they knew who was in that building." The London police said they had not heard from anyone who lived in or was<br />inside 23 apartments — nearly a fifth of the total, all on the upper floors, where the fire became much more intense.<br />Based on political canvassing, she said she believed the residents numbered "400 to 500 minimum," compared<br />with the 2011 census figure of 259 people in the building and the police estimate of 350.
