Two young girls whose family lived on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower have been found alive after a relative searched hospitals all over London to find them.
Tamsin Belkadi, aged six, and her older sister Malek aged eight, were among the dozens of people reported missing and unaccounted for.
After a desperate search, the girls were located at St Mary’s Hospital where one of them is in a coma and another is deeply traumatised by the event according to The Telegraph.
The young girls' parents, Farah Hamdan and Omar Belkadi, and their six-month-old sister, Leena, remain unaccounted for and have not been seen since the early hours of Wednesday.
Leena is believed to be the youngest missing resident from Grenfell Tower.
Tazmin and Malek Belkadi, who were #MISSING after #GrenfellTower fire, have been LOCATED in the hospital. pic.twitter.com/Hz2hDfT4Pu
— Missing Kids Matters (@KidsofWorld) June 15, 2017
Adel Chaoui who is a relative of the girls’ mum Farah explains: “I was trawling hospitals and yesterday morning I found two of Farah’s children in St Mary’s.”
Finding the girls proved incredibly difficult and Mr Chaoui said he had not been helped by the authorities.
“We begged and cajoled a nurse who took pity and said there was a child upstairs who matched our description.
“We noticed that her sibling was a few beds down, no one even knew they were related. Police are not identifying people... they are using protocols for terrorist incidents to manage a civil disaster.”
A desperate Mr Chaoui appears to have created a Twitter account pleading for help to find his relatives following the devastating blaze which ripped through the 24 storey apartment block.
Tazmin and Malek's mother, Farah Hamden, and her 6-month-old baby are still #MISSING after the #GrenfellTower fire. pic.twitter.com/82zZwJK1zU
— Missing Kids Matters (@KidsofWorld) June 15, 2017
A number of tweets were posted to the account pleading for information on the whereabouts of his relatives.
He criticised the authorities, saying: "We have had no help from the police, we understand that they're busy but they've got casualties in the hospitals.
"People are having to contact the hospitals themselves and are being told they can’t get any information. My family has been around all the hospitals asking for anyone who matches the descriptions.”
Mr Chaoui called the casualty helpline “tens of times." “It's a glorified answering machine. No one has got any information from it. We just want anything from them. It'll stop us running around trawling all the hospitals.”
He also revealed that one of the girls is so traumatised by the event she had to be sedated to stop her screaming.
Our thoughts are with this family and all those affected by this terrible tragedy.
