WORKMEN have cut through an electric cable and gas main in Bexley.
A 100 metre exclusion zone has been put up around Greenside until the gas and electricity is turned off.
Twenty homes in the road have been evacuated.
Bexley police officers have been at the scene directing traffic since around 2.45pm.
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