Woman dies in house fire in north London
A woman has died in an early-morning house fire in north London.
Firefighters raced to the scene on The Link in Enfield shortly before 2.20am on Sunday.
They entered the two-storey home and rescued a woman from the property.
She was pronounced dead at the scene, the London Fire Brigade said.
A statement said: ‘A woman has sadly died following a house fire on The Link in Enfield.
‘Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus bought a woman out of the property. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
‘A small amount of the ground floor was damaged by fire.’
Police and forensics crews were seen at the scene later on Sunday morning.
There was no immediate cause for the blaze and firefighters said they were still investigating.
The fire was the second in Enfield in recent weeks after a man and a woman were rescued from a flat on August 28.
There were no reported injuries in that blaze.
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