The Independent
01 January, 1988
Kwasi Afari-Minta wears a fitted mask, designed to soften the scar tissue on his face. He suffered severe burns in a fire that claimed 31 lives at King's Cross underground station. The chairman chief executive of London Regional Transport resigned over the disaster.
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