Watch: Smoke billows as fire rages at Shell chemical plant in Houston

A chemical plant in Houston, Texas, caught fire on Friday 5 May, sending a huge plume of smoke into the sky.

The blaze broke out at a Shell plant in Deer Park, a suburb east of Houston, according to the county sheriff.

While no deaths have been reported, five people were taken for evaluation of possible injuries due to exposure to burned chemicals.

The fire was extinguished on Saturday and air monitoring has detected no harmful levels of chemicals.

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