Eight workers hospitalised after ‘breathing in fumes’ sparking huge emergency response with critical incident declared

EIGHT workers have been hospitalised after reportedly breathing in fumes – sparking a huge emergency response with a critical incident declared.

A convoy of ambulances raced to reports of people inhaling fumes at a bleach and disinfectant factory in Thetford, Norfolk this morning.

Paramedics assessed 20 people on an industrial estate and took seven women and one man to hospital.

Witnesses said the scenes happened at Easy Cleaning Solutions, which makes chemical cleaning products like bleach.