A massive fire has broken out in East London just metres away from a busy street festival.

Plumes of black smoke can be seen rising above a block of flats on Woodgrange Road, Forest Gate, and police cordons have been put in place around the scene.

An annual street party full of families and children is taking place just around the corner from the blaze.

Witness Shehnaz Umer told The Independent: ‘I saw the smoke and immediately knew it was the start of something huge.

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‘Within a minute the flames were visible. As I drove ahead and looked in my rear view mirror, the sky was filled with black smoke within seconds.’

A stallholder at the Forest Gate Festival said she could see ‘thick black smoke’ towering above.

She told the publication: ‘It was quite shocking and sudden, all this thick black smoke billowing up, while the music was blaring at the festival.

‘A few of my neighbouring stall holders were worried it might affect the festival, but thankfully it hasn’t. Hoping no one was hurt.’

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