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Armenian family survives London fire

An Armenian family has survived the fire at Grenfell Tower in London.

Mesrob Kassemdjian has helped his 68-year-old aunt to safety from the 17th floor of the burning London tower block, taking nothing but his mobile phone.

“We got out but we lost everything. Everything. I’ve got only what I’m wearing on me,” Mesrob tells the Channel 4 News.

Thirty people have been confirmed dead in the fire, another 70 are still missing.

The fire, at broke out at the 24-storey block shortly before 01:00 BST on Wednesday.

It tore through all floors of the building and took more than 200 firefighters 24 hours to bring it under control.

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