About 100 firefighters are battling to extinguish a blaze on the 13th floor of a block of flats in Newham, east London.

       Fifteen fire engines have been scrambled to the scene of the flat fire on Grantham Road in Manor Park, where part of a flat on the 13th floor of a 15-storey block is ablaze.

       The London Fire Brigade (LFB) said it was called at 2.47pm and that about 60 people left the building before firefighters arrived.

       Fire crews from Ilford, Stratford, Leytonstone, Plaistow, Dagenham and surrounding fire stations are at the scene, LFB said.

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       LFB’s 999 control officers have taken 50 calls to the blaze.

       The cause of the fire is not yet known.