A woman has died after being rescued from a burning flat in Shadwell. 

Firefighters from the London Ambulance Service were called with reports of a fire at a residential block in Glamis Road on April 19. 

Crews from Whitechapel, Millwall and Poplar fire stations were dispatched to the flat fire. 

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The report came in at 3.44pm, with firefighters successfully extinguishing the fire in the ground-floor flat by 4.58pm. 

A woman was found inside the home before she was taken to hospital where she has since died. 

The cause of the fire is being investigated.