Dozens of firefighters are tackling an enormous fire in east London which has left a tube service severely delayed.
Video footage posted to social media shows dark smoke billowing into the air over an aggressive fire near Hackney Downs Station on Sunday evening.
Eight fire engines and 60 firefighters have rushed from stations across to east London to fight the blaze, which erupted on Cottrill Gardens. A static caravan and two cars have been engulfed by the fire, the London Fire Brigade said, as well as part of a grass embankment.
The Mildmay overground line has been part suspended between Stratford and Canonbury while Transport for London ‘responds to a fire alert’.
The cause of the fire is currently unknown.
