Woman and child taken to hospital after fire breaks out at London tower block

Three people left the affected flat while another 50 people left the building before fire crews arrived, the London Fire Brigade (LFB) said. Picture: @AkashDe69028264/Twitter/PA Wire

A woman and a child have been taken to hospital after a fire at a block of flats in south-west London.

The blaze took hold in a flat on the 20th floor of a high-rise on Westbridge Road in Battersea.