Chemical plant blaze at Moerdijk sparks Dutch alert

Carcinogenic chemical material is said to be stored at the Chemie-Pack plant
The southern Netherlands is on its highest state of alert after a blaze at a chemical plant near Rotterdam sent out a thick plume of smoke.

The cloud from the fire at Moerdijk was floating north and had reached the city of Dordrecht, Dutch media said.

Some 400,000 litres of carcinogenic material are stored at the Chemie-Pack plant, De Telegraaf says.