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All flights at London Luton Airport have been suspended after a fire broke out in one of its car parks. Footage posted on social media showed flames and smoke tearing through cars parked at the airport terminal on Tuesday evening.

The newly built £20million car park went up in flames in October last yearHundreds of burnt out cars are still stranded at Luton Airport car park more than six months after it was engulfed in a devastating blaze

It comes as insurance payouts for those unlucky travellers who left their motors at the car park before jetting off on holiday have now run into over £10million, according to The Mirror. Back in October, it was believed that a Range Rover sparked the car park inferno. A man who was arrested by police after the blaze was later released without charge.

Footage posted on social media at the time showed fire tearing through cars parked at the airport terminal, with smoke billowing over the airport's runway. Liz and Gary Blackmore, of Loughborough, were coming back from a five-day holiday to Portugal last night and had parked their Mercedes-AMG CLA Shooting Brake on the top floor of Luton's new £20million parking structure.

Diggers can be seen maneuvering around the car park site, which is still covered in rubble and melted steel beams Advertisement 'We parked our Mercedes on the top floor of the multi-story Car Park 2, short-stay, Luton, and we'd gone on holiday to Portugal.

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