UPDATE: Fatalities Confirmed In London Tower Block Blaze
There are fears people are still trapped inside or missing
London Fire Brigade have confirmed that there have been fatalities in the west London tower block fire.
30 people have been taken to hospitals across London after huge fire ripped through the tower block in North Kensington.
There are fears people are still trapped inside or missing - with reports that residents are tying bed sheets together in a bid to reach the ground.
Witnesses described hearing screams, watching a person fall out the high-rise block and a woman holding a baby out of a window.
200 firefighters are at the scene near White City, and smoke can be seen for miles across the capital.
London fire commissioner Dany Cotton briefed the media in the past few minutes and confirmed that there "a number of fatalities" in the tower block fire
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