'Incompetence and greed' made Grenfell Tower a death trap, report says
Seven years after 72 people were killed in the high-rise building fire in London, the inquiry found that a "combination of causes" led to the tower being covered in combustible cladding.
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00:00Failures by the U.K. government and other factors led to the disastrous London Grenfell
00:07Tower fire that killed 72 people in 2017, a report has found.
00:13A years-long public inquiry into the blaze concluded a mix of dishonest companies, incompetent
00:19regulators and complacent governments meant the 25-story building was a death trap.
00:25U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologised on behalf of the British state, saying the
00:30tragedy quote, should never have happened.