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A fire broke out at a Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical plant in Shanghai early on Saturday (Jun 18), the company said, adding the fire had been brought under control. It was not immediately known if there were any casualties from the fire. Roaring fire was seen engulfing part of a sprawling factory, emitting columns of thick black smoke in a video posted on Twitter by the state-backed Shanghai Daily. In a post on its official Weibo account, Sinopec said that the fire had been "effectively controlled" and it was carrying out "protective burning". It said that it was also monitoring volatile...