Fire breaks out in residential building in South Kensington, London. Half of the ground floor of a five storey building is alight.

Around 15 people left the property before the Brigade arrived. Five people rescued using ladders and around 130 residents evacuated. 11 people treated for smoke inhalation and taken to hospital, firefighters said. The fire hit a terraced house converted into apartments in the southwest of the British capital, near the Natural History Museum. The causes of the fire which broke out in the five-story building are not yet known.