Grenfell girl, 12, is treated for cyanide poisoning

A GIRL of 12 who survived the Grenfell Tower inferno has been-treated for cyanide poisoning.

Luana Gomes also had treatment for smoke inhalation, medical notes from King’s College Hospital, London, reveal.

Her sister Megan, ten, and mother Andreia, 37, were treated for possible poisoning by the gas after inhaling smoke while fleeing the 21st floor.

Doctors put all three into medically induced comas.

Mrs Gomes was seven months pregnant, but her unborn sondied and had to be delivered stillborn by Caesarean sectionwhile she was in a coma.

The source of the cyanide is not known, but residents fear it may have been released by burning insulationon the outside of the tower, in which at least 80 people died.

Richard Hull, professor of chemistry and fire science at the University of Central Lancashire, said plastic foam insulation produced hydrogen cyanide when it burned.

Mrs Gomes criticised the decision by council officials to install the flammable cladding, adding: ‘You just killed my son.’

Luana is the first survivor known to have needed treatment for cyanide poisoning.