A schoolboy is in critical condition after an incident during a nativity carol service at a south London church on Wednesday.
The child, believed to be a pupil at a Croydon primary school, reportedly suffered serious burns during a service the school was taking part in at Addiscombe Catholic Church.
Emergency services, including an air ambulance, rushed to the scene just before 2.30pm.
A witness told MyLondon he saw primary school children being escorted from the church in their nativity costumes.
Police have since confirmed the boy is in a "critical but stable" condition.
A London Ambulance Service spokesman said on Wednesday: "We were called at 2.10pm today to reports of an incident on Bingham Road, Croydon.
"We dispatched two ambulance crews, an emergency responder, a medic in a car and an incident response officer to the scene.
"We also dispatched a trauma team from London's Air Ambulance.
"We treated three people at the scene for burns including a child, a man and a woman.
"We took the child to hospital by air and we took the man and the woman to hospital by road."
