Residents evacuated after battery recycling plant catches fire

Firefighters are still at the scene more than 20 hours later

Caitlin Hutchison

Residents in North Ayrshire who had to flee their homes when a battery recycling plant caught fire last night have told STV News it “sounded like a terror attack”.

Loud banging noises were reported from as far as the neighbouring towns of Irvine and Stevenston, when the material inside the facility in Kilwinning exploded.

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