`Nobody should have died`: fear and anger in Minneapolis after public housing fire
(The Guardian United States)

A blaze that killed five in a 25-storey building with few sprinklers has prompted comparisons to London´s Grenfell fireWarsame Omar lives on the 15th floor of Minneapolis´s Cedar High apartments, exactly one floor above where a fire started early on Wednesday morning. He woke to find his room full of thick black smoke. The elderly Somali man ran outside to the stairwell, where he vomited. He remembers a black substance coming out of his mouth and nose.Omar managed to escape alive, but others in the 25-floor public housing complex located in the heart of Minneapolis´s Somali community did not. The fire killed five people, injured at least four more and has sparked an argument in the city about its dilapidated public housing. Continue reading...