loss of life

Det Supt Nicola Wallace, the senior investigating officer, said Ms Mitchell's death was a "completely senseless loss of life".

It was the biggest loss of life ever suffered by one of the UK's fire services.

"I know this is a talking point today, but in a world where there's war in Europe, where there's a tremendous loss of life in the Middle East, where the US and the UK genuinely have a special relationship, where we got someone who's about to become again, the US president, who has experience of doing the job last time round, we will forge common interests," he said.

"This is a truly dreadful and tragic loss of life," he said.

Change Grow Live, a charity providing drug and alcohol treatment, said the "devastating loss of life" was "deeply saddening, unnecessary and unacceptable".