Public anger over London fire grows

LONDON: London’s mayor said on Sunday that the Grenfell Tower fire, in which 58 people are presumed dead, was caused by “mistakes and neglect”, as he acknowledged growing public frustration and anger. Sadiq Khan visited a church near the burnt-out residential tower to attend a service which remembered victims of last Wednesday’s tragedy, when a 24-storey social housing block went up in flames. He admitted the local community, a working-class enclave in one of Britain’s wealthiest districts, was feeling “frustrated and angry” at the official response to the disaster. “There is a feeling from the community that they’ve been treated badly because some of them are poor,” Khan said.