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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - A picture taken on May 10, 2025 shows smoke billowing from a building storing pool cleaning products, in the coastal city of Vilanova i la Geltru, south of Barcelona. Spanish authorities told more than 160,000 people near Barcelona to stay indoors on May 10 after a fire at an industrial property released a toxic cloud of chlorine over a wide area. — AFP pic
MADRID, May 10 — Spanish authorities told more than 160,000 people near Barcelona to stay indoors today after a fire at an industrial property released a toxic cloud of chlorine over a wide area.
The blaze, in the coastal city of Vilanova i la Geltru just south of Barcelona, took hold of a building storing pool cleaning products, the regional fire service said.
“If you are in the zone that is affected do not leave your home or your place of work,” the Civil Protection service said on social media.
Firefighters work on a site of a burnt building storing pool cleaning products, in the coastal city of Vilanova i la Geltru, south of Barcelona May 10, 2025. — AFP pic
The at-risk area stretched across five municipalities from Vilanova i la Geltru to the village of Calafell, near Tarragona.
“No casualties” had been reported, the fire service said on X, adding that a large number of units deployed to the scene had brought the fire under control.
It said it was “monitoring the column (of gas) caused by the blaze for changes and for its toxic levels”.
“It is very difficult for chlorine to catch fire but when it does so it is very hard to put it out,” the owner of the industrial property, Jorge Vinuales Alonso, told local radio station Rac1.
He said the cause of the fire might have been a lithium battery. — AFP
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