Pictures reveal devastation inside smouldering London tower

THERE are fears the London tower fire death toll could be “more than 100”, as the eerie first photos emerge of the devastation inside.

THERE are fears the death toll in the London apartment tower fire could be “more than 100”, as the eerie photographs emerge providing the first look inside the building’s smouldering remains.

Seventeen people have been confirmed to have died in the fire, which ripped through the 24-storey apartment building in west London in the early hours of Wednesday, but the number of fatalities is expected to rise.

A London Council source has told the Huffington Post that “emergency services are expecting the number of deaths to be more than 100”.

Metropolitan Police commander Stuart Cundy told reporters on Thursday that some victims may never be identified.

“I’d like to hope that it isn’t going to be triple figures,” he said of the death toll.

London fire commissioner Dany Cotton said it would be a “miracle” if anyone else was found alive.

The charred remains of a kitchen inside the London apartment tower. Picture: Courtesy of Declan Wilkes

Meanwhile, new pictures show that some parts of Grenfell Tower are still being licked by flames, days after the blaze erupted.

A series of five images, obtained by news.com.au, shows the smouldering remains of a kitchen, with a battered fridge and charred oven surrounded by a blackened washing machine, melted chairs, crumbling walls and a dripping ceiling.

The windows of this apartment are blown out. Picture: Courtesy of Declan Wilkes

A fire still burns in the corner of the room and the windows are completely blown out.

Another photograph shows a brigade of firefighters in a hall surveying the damage.

Firefighters search for survivors inside the tower. Picture: Courtesy of Declan Wilkes

Water drips from the ceiling of the gutted apartment. Picture: Courtesy of Declan Wilkes

Remains of furniture are seen through the windows as smoke still emerges from the charred Grenfell Tower in London. Picture: AP Photo/Frank Augstein

A video has also been published by The Sun that reveals the devastation of the blaze, depicting flooded floors, piles of charred debris and even a wrapped dead body.

The video, which appears to have been shot in a building adjacent to the apartment tower, shows a web of firemen’s hoses across the floor and water spilling down a stairwell.

A man looks at a wrapped dead body in a video showing the devastation of the London fire. Picture: The Sun

A floor littered with debris. Picture: The Sun

Sooty handprints can be seen on the walls where it is presumed that residents tried to escape.

At one point the camera pans up to reveal the tower still coughing up black smoke.

Firefighters combed the sooty ruins of the 120-apartment tower on Thursday in a desperate search for scores of missing residents, however some parts of the building were too structurally unsafe to enter.

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaks to firefighters after arriving at Grenfell Tower in London. Picture: AP Photo/Frank Augstein

British Prime Minister Theresa May, who visited the scene on Thursday, has ordered a public inquiry to determine what caused the fire.

“We need to know what happened,” she said.

“We need to know an explanation. We owe that to the families, to the people who have lost loved ones and the homes in which they lived.”

The remains of the residential apartment block Grenfell Tower. Picture: AFP/ Tolga Akmen