Tourists in Spanish holiday hotspot ordered to stay indoors as fire at chemical plant releases toxic cloud into air

TOURISTS in a string of Spanish beach resorts were told to stay indoors today after a huge fire at a chemical plant sent a toxic chlorine cloud billowing over the area.

Holidaymakers in five popular towns near Barcelona were among 160,000 people ordered to shut their windows and stay inside as emergency services scrambled to contain the blaze.

AFPFirefighters work on a site of a burnt building storing pool cleaning products, in the coastal city of Vilanova i la Geltru[/caption]...