A late-night house fire in which two people were injured is being treated as suspicious by police.

Medway officers are investigating the blaze in an end-of-terrace property in Brompton Lane, Strood, on Tuesday night.

Three crews from Strood and Medway fire stations were called to the scene shortly before midnight.

When they arrived a man and a woman had freed themselves from the burning building by climbing out of a small window.

Police closed the road while ambulance crews treated the pair for smoke inhalation.

The blaze comes only weeks after the neighbouring house was badly damaged by fire.