As fans of EastEnders will know, part of the show’s Christmas drama will be a huge fire that will claim the life of Pat Evans (Pam St Clement), but it’s rumoured that she won’t be the only fatality.

And the Daily Star reports that the Masood family will be caught up in the blaze, which begins at the B&B.

It’s started deliberately and some media sources are speculating that it’ll be evil schemer Dr Yusef Khan (Ace Bhatti) who is the Walford arsonist.

The paper adds that the fire causes a huge explosion, which leads to the climax of the Masood-Yusef storyline.

It seems that at the time of the blaze, Zainab (Nina Wadia) is fully under Yusef’s control, and in scenes that replicate her memories of previously being trapped in a fire in Pakistan – which it’s believed Yusef started – she’ll desperately cry for help when she becomes trapped after going to Masood’s aid in the B&B.

Of the Christmas storyline, Nina recently told Digital Spy that the scripts, “shocked the life out of me.”

She added, “I’m literally thinking, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, what’s going to happen next?’”