Fire tears through top floor and roof of flats in Battersea, London – Bundlezy

Fire tears through top floor and roof of flats in Battersea, London

The fire has been raging for well over an hour (Picture: X)

A fire has broken out in a block of flats in Battersea, south west London, sending a massive plume of smoke into the air.

The blaze started just before 7.10pm on the top floor of a four-story building on Maysoule Road.

Footage on social media shows the roof of the flats engulfed in flames and badly damaged, with the singed rafters visible.

A livestream of the fire on TikTok shows columns of smoke rising from the building, partly glowing orange from the fire.

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The fire brigade said the cause of the fire is unknown.

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