More than 100 evacuated and nearly a dozen injured after fire in South Kensington

Fifteen fire engines and around 100 firefighters were called to a fire at a terraced house converted into flats on Emperor's Gate in Kensington. Photograph: London Fire Brigade

Eleven people have been taken to hospital after a fire broke out at a converted terraced house in the upmarket London neighbourhood of South Kensington.

Fifteen fire engines and about 100 firefighters were called to the fire at a terraced house converted into apartments on Emperor’s Gate, in west London, close to the Natural History Museum.