Four fire engines and around 25 firefighters have been called to a fire at a flat above a shop on Batavia Mews in New Cross that is thought to have been caused by a drugs factory. A Police officer has been taken to hospital after she was burnt by the explosion.

Most of a five-roomed flat on the third floor of the building is alight. 

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