It will be “many months” before authorities will be able to give a final death toll for the London tower block blaze, police said on Wednesday while stressing the enormity of the task.
“We are many months from being able to provide the number of people who accurately represents the loss of life at Grenfell Tower,” detective Fiona McCormack told journalists.
“We believe around 80 people to be dead or sadly missing and I must presume that they are dead,” she said.
Two weeks after the devastating fire took hold of Grenfell Tower in west London, investigators are carrying out what McCormack described as a “painstaking, fingertip search” to try and establish how many people died.
“The tragic reality is that due to the intense heat of the fire there are some people who we may never identify,” the police detective added.
Victims named so far include five-year-old Isaac Paulos, who was identified by dental records after disappearing as his family tried to escape the blaze.
Survivors and local residents have voiced anger at the police slowly increasing the toll and accuse them of playing down the number of dead.
The Guardian newspaper said resident Sajad Jamalvatan had compiled a list which suggested the true figure could be above 120.
As well as interviewing residents, police have spoken to others including food delivery companies and schools in order to establish who was inside Grenfell Tower.
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