Three young British-Bangladeshi siblings chose to stay and accept death with their parents inside the burning Grenfell Tower instead of leaving them to die alone, it has recently emerged.
As the fire raged on, the siblings, bride-to-be Husna Begum, 22, and her brothers, Hanif, 26, and Hamid, 29, explained their decision to relatives over the phone, report the Mirror.
In an emotional conversation 2 hours into the fire, the siblings said they could not leave their mother, Rabeya, in her 60s, and 82-year-old father, Kamru Miah.
The British-Bangladeshis also told their relatives not to grieve as they were "going to a better place".
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It has been claimed they had an "opportunity" of almost an hour after the fire began around 12:50am to make their way to safety - until about 1:45am - and were last heard of on the phone at 3:10am.
Their cousin, Samir Ahmad, 18, told The Times : "Their dad could barely walk anyway.
"What were they going to do? Abandon him?"
Ahmad said he believed "until around 1:45am they could have left their parents, but they didn't."
Of their final conversation, he said: "My auntie spoke to Hanif. He was very calm.
"He said his time had come, and not to mourn for them, but be happy for them because they would be in a better place.
"Hats off to them. They didn't show cowardice. They stayed with their mum and dad.
"Family was so important to them. They lived together and they died together."
Ahmad said he believed the children would have been haunted for the rest of their lives.
Husna was due to get married in Leicester next month.
One brother Mohammed Hakim, who had been at the home earlier in the evening but left before the blaze, is known to have survived.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
