A young boy was rushed to St George’s Hospital with burns after escaping a house fire in Tooting.

Six people were evacuated from the blaze in Trinity Road last night.

Firefighters were called to a three-storey building just after 9pm.

The fire started in a maisonette on the second and third floors of the building.

Four engines and 20 firefighters from Tooting, Battersea and Clapham stations attended the scene.

The blaze was under control by 10pm.

The cause is under investigation.

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