Police have launched an investigation into a fire that ripped through a 1960s-era public housing block in south London, killing six people including a newborn baby. Chief Superintendent Wayne Chance, speaking on Saturday outside the partly-blackened high-rise building in Camberwell, said Friday's fire had started inside a fourth-floor flat and was being treated as "suspicious". "The investigation is likely to take some time," he said, explaining that detectives are dealing with a "large and complex scene". The London Fire Brigade said the blaze in the 12-storey Lakanal House block in Sceaux Gardens Estate rapidly spread up...
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