Thousands raised for five year old Afghan refugee who died in Sheffield

Mohammed Munib Majeedi fell from the window of the Sheffield Metropolitan Hotel in Blonk Street at around 2.30pm on Wednesday.

Richard Davenport has set up a Just Giving page to raise money for the boy’s family and more than £4,300 has been donated so far.

The page states the boy and his family had been in the UK for “a matter of days” and his father has spent “many years” providing humanitarian aid and supporting displaced persons on behalf of the British Government and non-profit organisations in Afghanistan.

Thousands are fleeing from Afghanistan as the Taliban regained control of the country after US-led forces decided to end a 20-year military campaign and withdraw.

Migration Yorkshire says 24 families, consisting of 174 people, have settled in Yorkshire and the Humber so far through the Afghan Relocations and Assistance Policy, which was launched in April to help Afghans who have assisted the British military.

Five Labour MPs who represent Sheffield have called for a “full, urgent, independent inquiry” into the circumstances that led to the boy’s death and they claim that asylum seekers were previously moved out of the hotel.