Grief over a London high-rise tower fire that killed dozens turned to outrage Friday amid reports that the materials used in a recent renovation of the public housing block may have fueled the inferno.
Police commander Stuart Cundy earlier updated the death toll from 17 to 30, adding: "I do believe the number will increase".
Cundy said that because the fire was so powerful there was "a risk that sadly we may not be able to identify everybody".
The cause of the fire was still unknown, but police said there was nothing to indicate it was started deliberately.
Questioned as to whether the anger followed Mrs May's initial visit to the west London site during which she did not meet residents, he said: "We didn't talk directly about that".
Dozens of police officers held back booing crowds and broke up scuffles as her auto drove off from local church, where she had met survivors, residents and volunteers and promised new funds for those affected.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is shown donations of aid, made by members of the local community, by Executive Director of Kensington and Chelsea Council, Sue Harris during a visit to the Westway Sports Center which is providing temporary shelter for those who have been made homeless in the Grenfell Tower disaster, in west London on June 16, 2017.
Specialist Urban Search and Rescue crews are working to make the block safe so that firefighters can continue to search the building.
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Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Cambridge visited the area to meet residents and community representatives on Friday. Very early in the morning on Wednesday, a fire erupted in high rise apartment building Grenfell Tower in West London .
The Grenfell Tower public housing complex had 120 apartments and housed as many as 600 people.
"We will be asking them to provide analysis about the buildings".
Police said it may not be possible to identify some of the bodies, while the list of those missing based on accounts of friends and survivors reached around 80 people, including the 30 confirmed dead.
Some desperate residents pleaded to speak to the queen and her grandson about their plight and the fate of missing children as they left the site, with William promising he would return.
The latest figures from NHS England show that 24 people are still being treated in hospitals across London, of whom 12 remain in critical care. British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn proposed putting some of them up in empty luxury homes owned by wealthy residents of the area - which is a fairly affluent neighborhood.
British Ambassador to Lebanon Hugo Shorter on Friday briefed the Lebanese government on the ongoing search to find the missing Lebanese family, reported The Daily Star.
The Prime Minister visited victims in hospital, following criticism of her failure to meet relatives yesterday.
The appeal said: "Mohammed Alhajali undertook a unsafe journey to flee war in Syria, only to meet death here in the United Kingdom, in his own home". And sorrow is quickly turning to anger over whether the building met fire and safety regulations. "I pray particularly for those who have suffered injury, those who have died, and all the residents who are left without a home today, and the entire community that has been affected", said Cardinal Vincent Nichols in a statement.
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