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During a Channel 4 news interview, Lily Allen claims that the true death toll in the Grenfell Tower fire in London, England, UK, Europe, is closer to '150 people' than the 17 so far officially confirmed.Full article:
Lily Allen : If we are talking about bringing reality into these people's lives, I think what people would really like is a more honest count of how many people have actually died in this event, how many people have been killed.
I feel like the government are trying to micromanage people's grieving here.
I have never in my entire life seen an event like this were the death count has been downplayed by the mainstream media.
Seventeen? I'm sorry but I am hearing from people the figure is much closer to 150 - and that many of those people are children.
They are off-the-record numbers I have been given from policemen and from firemen.
(Transcript of ITV interview)
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I feel like the government are trying to micromanage people's grieving here.
I have never in my entire life seen an event like this were the death count has been downplayed by the mainstream media.
Seventeen? I'm sorry but I am hearing from people the figure is much closer to 150 - and that many of those people are children.
They are off-the-record numbers I have been given from policemen and from firemen.
(Transcript of ITV interview)