| BABY DROPPED FROM 10TH FLOOR

London, June 14: A quick-thinking man caught a baby thrown from the “ninth or the tenth floor” window of a building by a desperate woman after a huge fire engulfed the 24-storey residential tower block.

The fire at Grenfell Tower on the Lancaster West Estate in Latimer Road was reported at 01:16 local time. About 600 people were believed to have been inside the tower’s 120 flats when the blaze ripped through the building.

Samira Lamrani, a witness, was quoted by The Telegraph as saying that she saw a woman try to save a baby by I could see people banging and screaming for help. We were reassuring them, telling them we’ve done what we can .. but the look on their face was death — SAMIRA LAMRANI, Eyewitness dropping it from a window “on the ninth or 10th floor” to waiting members of the public below. “People were starting to appear at the windows, frantically banging and screaming,” she said.

The windows were slightly ajar, a woman was gesturing that she was about to throw her baby and if somebody could catch her baby. “Somebody did, a gentleman ran forward and managed to grab the baby.

“I could see people from all angles, banging and screaming for help. We were reassuring them, telling them we’ve done what we can and that we’ve phoned 999, but obviously the look on their face was death,” Ms Lamrani said.

Another resident, Zara, saw a woman throw her son, who was about five years old, from a fifth or sixth floor window.