No Hiding Place From Death

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…The heart-rending story of one victim of Grenfell Tower tragedy


His name is Mohammed Alhajali, 23, a Syrian citizen. Mohammed fled his war-torn country, Syria, to UK in 2014, to escape possible death in the raging war in Syria.
Confident of assured peace in UK and unreachable by bullets and bombs raining in Syria, Mohammed began studying civil engineering. But how was he to know that the formless death he fled from in Syria did not stay put in Syria and that it could appear in any way and in anywhere to snatch away its victim?
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*Mohammed Alhajali
Mohammed Alhajali was the first victim of the Glenfell Tower fire tragedy to be named. The Syria Solidarity Campaign named him as a victim of the fire tragedy. According to the Syria Solidarity Campaign, “Mr Alhajali, a civil engineering student, had been in a flat on the 14th floor when the fire broke out, and had spent two hours on the phone to a friend in Syria.
”He had been trying to get through to his family while he was waiting to be rescued.
 "Mohammed bid his friend goodbye, saying that the fire had reached him. He asked his friend to pass on the message to his family...”
Mohammed did not choose to be a sitting duck though for the rampaging inferno to consume. He was said to have left their 14th floor flat with his elder brother, Omar in a bid to escape from the burning tower, but they lost each other along the route and Mohammed had to return to their flat hoping to be rescued.
The older brother, Omar, told the BBC he had lost Mohammed on the way out of the building.
Help never got to him and according to a statement by the Syria Solidarity Campaign, "Mohammed undertook a dangerous journey to flee war and death in Syria, only to meet it here in the UK, in his own home….”
May the souls of all the departed rest in peace.


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