Two people were today dead after a blaze swept through a flat in Stock.

Appliances from Ingatestone and Billericay attended the fire at 8.12am this morning at the first floor flat at Vernon Corner, Back Lane.

Smoke consumed the flat and police and firefighters have not yet determined the identity of the fire's victims.

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