Antwerp fire live: Multiple dead as blaze rips through Linkeroever apartment block

Antwerp fire live: Multiple dead as blaze rips through Linkeroever apartment block A huge fire is ripping through an apartment block in the Belgian city of Antwerp "Multiple" people have been killed in an ongoing fire in an apartment block in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The fire broke out at August Vermeylenlaan in the Linkeroever district. The building is home to more than 200 people. According to the fire department, the fire is located on the eighth floor. An evacuation is under way, but police have already confirmed that "multiple" people have died. 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." Key Events "We barricaded ourselves into our flat and waited on the balcony," Resident Geert Dewulf told Belgian public TV. "The fire brigade came to rescue us from the balcony 10 minutes or so later with their ladder." An evacuation of the 10-storey building, which is home to around 200 people, is under way. Local residents have warned to keep their windows and doors closed and, if needed, to turn off any ventilators due to the amount of smoke in the air. Several people have been killed and many hurt in a fire in an apartment block in the Belgian city of Antwerp, police said. The blaze broke out on the eighth floor of the building, where more than 200 people live, in the city’s Linkeroever neighbourhood, Antwerp police said in a statement.