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Asos warehouse fire in England leads company to halt sales

UK online fashion retailer Asos has been forced to suspend its website and stop taking orders, possibly for several days, after a fire at the firm’s main warehouse in Barnsley of England’s South Yorkshire.

The fire, which South Yorkshire police believe was started deliberately on Friday night, ripped through several floors of Asos’s vast distribution centre. It took 10 fire engines and more than 60 firefighters to bring the blaze under control.

Around 500 workers were evacuated from the premises. The company now faces a battle to get its operations moving and it is unclear when orders already placed will be delivered.
 

A company spokesman announced on Monday (23 June) that about 20% of stock was destroyed but that business has resumed.

(Source: guardian.co.uk)