Body found in flat above charity shop after fire breaks out
The body of a man has been found in a flat above a charity shop in Surbiton after a fire broke out on the 1st April.
Mr George Quback who is the manager of the Cancer Research UK Charity Shop below the flat said: “I went round the back of the shop and saw the police try to break the window, but they couldn’t do it, so they used a ladder to go through the window on the first floor. It all happened very quickly. The police and the ambulance were here in about 5 minutes. They evacuated the houses next to the building.”
A neighbour who witnessed the incident said: “We were asleep but we just heard a lot of fire alarms and then there were a lot of police coming over. We didn’t know what was happening, we looked out of our window and there was a lot of smoke. I could see it coming from the first floor above the charity shop, the smell was really strong and the whole block was in smoke. We got out of the house and our other neighbours were standing around on the street, it was really bad.”
It took firefighters around 40 minutes to bring the fire under control.
An investigation will be carried out to determine how the fire started and a post mortem is scheduled to confirm how the man died.
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