A number of people have died and others have been injured in a fire that broke out in a 10-storey block of flats in Antwerp, Belgian police say.
Thick smoke was seen billowing from the eighth floor of the building in the Linkeroever district, after the fire broke out just before 10:00 (08:00 GMT) on Wednesday.
Dramatic video showed a man clambering from his balcony through a neighbour’s window to escape the black smoke.
Police say more than 200 people live in the block.
Resident Geert Dewulf told Belgian public TV how thick smoke had stopped him getting out of his flat: “We barricaded ourselves into our flat and waited on the balcony. The fire brigade came to rescue us from the balcony 10 minutes or so later with their ladder.”
