A woman has died in a fire at a block of flats in South Lanarkshire.

The blaze happened at 4.55pm on Wednesday on Greenhill Road in Rutherglen.

The body of a 55-year-old woman was found after crews extinguished the fire.

Others living in the block were evacuated.

A Police Scotland spokesman said: "A post-mortem will take place to establish the exact cause of her death which at this time police are treating as unexplained.

"There was no one else in the flat at the time. Residents from other flats in the tenement were evacuated as a precaution.

"Officers are currently at the scene and enquiries, which are at an early stage, are continuing. A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal."