Huge blaze breaks out at steel plant near Tokyo’s Haneda airport


Smoke rises from a steel plant near Tokyo's Haneda airport on Monday. -AFP

TOKYO: A huge blaze broke out Monday at a steel pipe plant near Tokyo’s Haneda airport, a fire department official said, as television images showed plumes of thick black smoke and flames shooting up into the air.

The blaze came just hours after a blast ripped through a warehouse at a US military post near Tokyo, sending sparks into the sky and triggering a blaze that burned through the night, although there were no reports of injuries.

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