BREAKING: A teenage boy is being questioned on suspicion of murder after a 14-year-old girl died in a fire at a block of flats in east London
A section of the road remained closed off on Friday morning, with police forensic officers and firefighters at the scene.The fire broke out in a block of flats opposite a Lidl supermarket around 5.30pm on Thursday.
The manager of the store, Raza Nowsin, told local news site, MyLondon, that people were jumping out of the windows to escape. "People were running around everywhere. They had a mattress there and they were trying to jump on it but some people didn't get to the mattress," they said. Another witness told the site:"I witnessed a person jumping out of the second-floor window as [they were] trapped, a sight I never thought I would see."She wrote on Twitter:"We are deeply saddened by the news that there has been one fatality already from the fire that broke out in flats in Beckton.
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