Video from social media shows flames rising from the London zoo building. A number of staff at ZSL London zoo have been treated for smoke inhalation and an aardvark is unaccounted for after a large fire broke out near the Meerkat enclosure in the early hours of Saturday morning. Ten fire engines and more than 70 firefighters attended the scene after London fire brigade were called at 6.08am to the zoo’s Adventure cafe and shop. It took about three hours for the fire at the busy tourist attraction in the north-west of the capital to be brought under control

Aardvark missing after London Zoo fire brought under control