Cops say flats fire 'suspicious'

A HORROR fire that swept through a block of flats in London killing six people is being treated as suspicious by police. Three children were among six killed yesterday as a the blaze tore through a tower block. Cops have named five of the six victims. They were Helen Udoaka, 34, and her three-week-old daughter Michelle. Dayana Francisquini, 26, three-year-old Filipe Francisquini and 31-year-old Catherine Hickman. Firemen battled to pluck two of the dead from the inferno, which survivors said was sparked by an explosion. But they and a rescued woman were dead on arrival at hospital after the blaze in Camberwell, South London, Chief Supt Wayne Chance said the fire started inside a fourth floor flat and is being treated as suspicious. Thirty people were rescued from the block in Sceaux Gardens, off Dalwood Street, and 15 people... [read full story]                    

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