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Published Date: 05 July 2009 A FATHER yesterday told of his anguish after listening helplessly on his mobile phone to the cries of his wife and baby daughter as they perished in a tower block inferno. As calls mounted for a public enquiry amid claims that residents were trapped inside the council flats in Camberwell, London, by blocked fire exits, the cousin of Mbet Udoaka, 37, described how he had raced home from work after his wife Helen called to tell him she was trapped in the blaze. When he arrived on the scene, however, police and firefighters would not allow him to enter the building, and he was forced to listen to his wife's frantic cries until she lost consciousness. Udoaka's cousin Mary said: "Helen was panicking and crying, but they were on the phone to each other constantly until she was too weak to cry. He was... [read full story]
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