The woman was found inside a flat that had been on fire in Glamis Road (Image: Google Maps, PublicDomainPictures (pixabay))
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.
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.
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