A fire has broken out at a 19-storey block of flat in Poplar, east London.
The building is thought to be covered with the same type of cladding used on Grenfell Tower.
Parts of the eighth, ninth and 10th floors are ablaze at New Providence Wharf on Fairmount Avenue in Poplar, the London Fire Brigade said.
The London Ambulance Service said it had treated a number of people at the scene.
Local Labour MP Apsana Begum says the residents had been “left vulnerable and unsafe” due to fire and building safety defects.
“It is simply not good enough for developers to say that they cannot act or that they are and then do nothing”
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