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Fire erupts in East London high-rise just hours after Dagenham blaze

A fire erupted in a building in east London, mere hours after a blaze consumed a tower block in Dagenham on Bank Holiday Monday. Footage circulating on social media platform X shows thick black smoke pouring from one of the high-rises at New Providence Wharf, near the River Thames. Flames seem to be raging inside an apartment in Charrington Tower,…