Two children and a woman have died in a “devastating” flat fire, Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said. A man managed to escape the flames, which engulfed the maisonette in Cambridge, and is being treated in hospital.
More than 30 firefighters rushed to attend the blaze in Sackville Close, King’s Hedges, in the early hours of the morning. A man in his 30s managed to escape the flat before crews arrived.
Firefighters rescued two children, a boy and a girl, but despite efforts to save them they both later died in hospital. Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service said that a woman in her 30s also died at the scene.
