A teenage girl has died after being found on fire in a London street.
The
London Fire Brigade said its crews were called to reports of a blaze
near a Tesco supermarket at the junction of West Barnes Lane and
Burlington Road in New Malden at 1.12am this morning.
When they arrived they found the body of a woman, thought to have been aged 18, in the road outside the shop.
The fire service said she had suffered severe burns, and was pronounced dead at the scene.
A spokeswoman added the woman had suffered burns on every part of her body.
Nearby Burlington Road and neighbouring streets were sealed off by police and remained closed at midday.
Officers
believe they know the identity of the woman and have informed her next
of kin but no formal identification has taken place.
Her
death is being treated as unexplained, and is now being investigated by
officers from Merton Borough and the London Fire Brigade.
Scotland Yard said it believed the fire started in a nearby house in Linkway.
Witnesses or anyone with information should call 101.
