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1 lifeless, a number of harm as shipment send catches hearth off Netherlands coast

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By way of Reuters:

One particular person died and several other others had been harm after a fireplace broke out on Panama-registered shipment send the Fremantle Freeway off the northern coast of the Netherlands, the Dutch coast guard stated on Wednesday.

The send was once crusing 27 km (17 miles) north of the island of Ameland, about 180 km from the capital Amsterdam when the hearth began, a remark stated.

A spokesperson informed Reuters an electrical automobile was once the supply of the blaze. The shipment send was once transporting 2,857 vehicles from Germany to Egypt, 25 of them electrical.

There have been 23 group participants on board when the hearth started. All group had been evacuated to the within reach Dutch port of Lauwersoog after failing to extinguish the blaze, the remark stated.

Emergency products and services are nonetheless provide close to the blazing send.