TWO men are in hospital with severe burns and a third is being quizzed by police after a suspected burglary at an electrical substation.

Ambulance crews were called to Cattawade Street, Brantham, last night close to the village’s industrial estate.

A blaze had broken out at the substation nearby in Factory Lane.

A Suffolk Police spokesman said: “We were called at 10.30pm yesterday by the ambulance service to Cattawade Street, Brantham, where they were treating two men with severe burns, and at 10.45pm we were notified by the fire service of a fire at an electrical substation in Factory Lane, Brantham.

“Two males in their twenties were taken to Colchester Hospital before being transferred to Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford.

“A 26-year-old man from Ipswich has been arrested on suspicion of burglary and is in custody at Ipswich Police Station.”

Kevin Pavietti, production manager of Dispersion Technology, on the site, said he arrived at work this morning to find there was no power supply to his business and several others.

“We have lost a day’s production here. I have 12 people that can’t do anything today,” he said.

Scenes of crime officers from Suffolk Police are on the scene this morning.