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Two young sisters who lived on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower have been found alive in hospital as the search continues for their parents and baby sibling, relatives said.

Six-year-old Tamzin Belkadi and her elder sister Malek Belkadi, eight, were found in hospital by relieved relatives more than 24 hours after the huge blaze turned the 24-storey west London tower block into a deadly inferno.

Their mother Farah Hamdan, father Omar Belkadi and six-month-old baby sister are still missing, family members said on Thursday afternoon.

Relatives said that one of the children was in a coma, while the other had been sedated because of trauma.

Their mother’s cousin Adel Chaoui told The Telegraph of the horrific struggle the family had faced to find the girls, begging sympathetic nurses and police officers to help.

He told the newspaper: “My family has been round all the hospitals asking for anyone who matches the descriptions.

"One took pity on us and gave us information and lo and behold it was one of the children who was missing.

"Our brother is wandering around the wards around and sees at a child two beds down and found that it was her sibling.

Mr Chaoui added that the hospital had no idea who the children were and didn’t realise they were related.

Ms Hamdan’s father told The Sun that his daughter, Mr Belkadi and their six-month-old daughter were still unaccounted for.

“We've been to all the hospitals and we've been searching all day but we still haven't found them, we just want to know they are safe,” he said.

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“We have had no help from the police, we understand that they're busy but they've got casualties in the hospitals.”

“Unknown numbers” of people were still missing on Thursday afternoon with London’s fire chief warning no further survivors were expected to be found.

Seventeen people were so far confirmed to have died in the inferno in Notting Hill but it could be weeks before the final death toll is established.