Fewer than half the victims of the Grenfell Tower disaster have been laid to rest more than 100 days after Britain’s worst postwar fire.
The painstaking recovery process combined with difficulties in identifying the dead have left families unable to hold funerals and move forward with their lives.
The ferocity of the blaze in June has meant that many victims are having to be traced through dental records or DNA samples from bone fragments.
Formally identified last week: Mehdi el-Wahabi, 8
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The lack of closure has been felt hardest by the tower’s Muslim families, who would normally bury a loved one within 24 hours.
Police now believe that just under 80 people died in the fire in Ladbroke Grove, west London. By Friday 67 victims — including a stillborn baby — had