A blaze on a cargo ship carrying nearly 3,000 vehicles off the Dutch coast has killed one person and injured several others, and coastguards have warned that the fire could last several days. The fire began on Tuesday night on the 199-metre Panama-registered Fremantle Highway, which was en route from Germany to Egypt. Several crewmembers were forced to jump overboard. Rescue ships were spraying water on to the burning vessel to cool it down, but using too much water would risk its sinking, the Dutch coastguard said. A salvage vessel was hooked up to the ship to stop it drifting
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