Grenfell Tower fire: Building a ‘death trap,’ report says [Video]

LONDON, U.K. –

A damning report on a deadly London high-rise fire concluded Wednesday that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned Grenfell Tower into a “death trap” where 72 people lost their lives.

The public inquiry into the 2017 blaze found no “single cause” of the tragedy, but said a combination of dishonest companies, weak or incompetent regulators and complacent government led the building to be covered in combustible cladding that turned a small apartment fire into the deadliest blaze on British soil since World War II.

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The inquiry’s head, retired judge Martin Moore-Bick, said the deaths were avoidable and “all contributed to it in one way or another, in most cases through incompetence but in some cases through dishonesty and greed.”

Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologized on behalf of the British state, saying the tragedy “should …