A balcony has been "completely destroyed" by a fire which tore through a flat in Whitechapel.

The London Fire Brigade (LFB) sent six fire engines and about 40 firefighters to a blaze in a block of flats on Cartwright Street in east London today (July 15).

"A balcony attached to a three-roomed flat on the third floor was completely destroyed by fire," a LFB spokesperson said.

The LFB took about an hour and 15 minutes to extinguish the blaze having arrived at 2.55am.

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It was over for firefighters at 4.10am after the blaze also damaged a small part of the flat.

Crews from Whitechapel, Shadwell, Dowgate, Dockhead, Shoreditch and Bethnal Green fire stations attended.

"The cause of the fire is undetermined," the LFB added.