{"id":313093,"date":"2017-06-16T14:45:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/london-fire-death-toll-rises-to-30-with-fears-it-will-soar-further\/"},"modified":"2017-06-16T14:45:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T13:45:41","slug":"london-fire-death-toll-rises-to-30-with-fears-it-will-soar-further","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/london-fire-death-toll-rises-to-30-with-fears-it-will-soar-further\/","title":{"rendered":"London fire death toll rises to 30 with fears it will soar further"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The confirmed death toll in London\u2019s Grenfell Tower fire has risen to 30 amid fears that it will soar significantly as a large number of people are still uncounted for.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said on Friday\u00a0that the death toll is expected to rise as many of those injured due to the massive fire\u00a0are in critical condition and many others are still missing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The investigation will look in into what criminal offences may have been committed,&#8221; Cundy said.<\/p>\n<p>As the death toll is rising pressure is mounting on British Prime Minister Theresa May over the fire. One former cabinet minister, Michael Portillo,\u00a0criticized May on Friday over her refusal to visit the survivors of the fire and talk to the victims\u2019 families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe wanted an entirely controlled situation in which she didn&#8217;t use her humanity,\u201d Portillo told the media.<\/p>\n<p>He said the premier only met with emergency workers in order to be in an entirely controlled situation and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/06\/16\/525477\/30-confirmed-deaths-in-Londons-tower-fire\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The confirmed death toll in London\u2019s Grenfell Tower fire has risen to 30 amid fears that it will soar significantly as a large number of people are still uncounted for. Metropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said on Friday\u00a0that the death toll is expected to rise as many of those injured due to the massive fire\u00a0are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}