Siblings stayed with parents instead of let them die alone in Grenfell fire

Three siblings decided to stay with their parents rather than let them die alone in the Grenfell Tower fire, it is believed.

Bride-to-be Husna Begum, 22, and her two brothers Hanif, 26, and Hamid, 29, told relatives that they opted not to escape so that they could stay with their frail father, Kamru Miah, 82, and mother, Rabeya, 65.

Their cousin, Samir Ahmad, told The Times that his auntie spoke to Hanif at around 3.10am, when he calmly told them that his ‘time had come’.

He said that the siblings had until around 1.45am to make their escape from their flat on the 17th floor – an hour after the fire began.

‘Their dad could barely walk anyway. What were they going to do? Abandon him?,’ he said.
Siblings stayed with parents instead of let them die alone in Grenfell fire

‘Hats off t them. They didn’t show cowardice. They stayed with their mum and dad. Family was important to them. They lived together and they died together.’

Husna was due to marry in Leicester next month in a ceremony attended by around 200 guests.
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According to The Times, one brother, Mohammed Hakim, survived. He had recently married and was moving out of the flat. He last saw his parents a few hours before the fire began.