Milan mayor likens tower block fire to Grenfell disaster

Experts say combustible materials were used in 20-storey building that went up in flames with no loss of life

The mayor of Milan has compared a fire that ripped through a 20-storey residential building on Sunday to the Grenfell Tower blaze in London that killed 72 people four years ago.

The fire, which started on the upper floors of the tower on the southern outskirts of the capital of the Lombardy region, spread to the rest of the building owing to what experts described as the chimney effect", which turned the building into a torch.