BBC NEWS | UK | England | London | Probe into fatal tower block fire

A tower block fire that left six people dead, including a three-week-old baby and two children, is being treated as suspicious until a cause is determined.
About 30 people were rescued from the fire at the 12-storey Lakanal House on the Sceaux Gardens Estate, Camberwell.

The blaze started on the ninth floor, at 1620 BST on Friday.

Ch Supt Wayne Chance said: "We would always treat a situation like this as suspicious because we don't know the cause... in the first instance."

Mr Chance said residents were not being allowed back into the premises because it was being treated as a crime scene.

He said the fire, which was tackled by more than 100 firefighters, had spread rapidly to the 11th floor.



Police: "No information to suggest that any of the victims were particularly targetted"
The bodies of a six-year-old child and two adults were found at the scene. The three-week-old baby, a seven-year-old child, and a woman were later pronounced dead in hospital.


this fire happened a few hundred yards where damilola taylor died....
just over the border in peckham