A tragedy in pictures: three years since the Grenfell Tower disaster

Annual vigils to mark the devastating fire replaced with an online service due to coronavirus

Grenfell Tower
Annual vigils to mark the devastating fire replaced with an online service due to coronavirus
(Image credit: Andrew Redington/Getty Images)

This Sunday is the third anniversary of the day the UK woke to news that Grenfell Tower in London had caught alight in the country’s worst residential fire since the Second World War.

“Residents of tower blocks and other homes across the UK will be asked to stream a bright green light” from their windows, The Guardian says, while the bells of St Paul’s and Southwark cathedrals will toll 72 times as the bereaved and survivors of Grenfell Tower remember the disaster.

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