One particular person has been killed and a number of other injured after a serious hearth on a cargo ship within the North Sea off the coast of the Netherlands.

Boats and helicopters had been used to get the 23 crew members off the ship after they didn't put out the blaze, the Dutch coast guard stated.

Images taken from the shore confirmed a protracted plume of gray smoke drifting over the ocean from the ship.

The ship, the Fremantle Highway, is a automobile provider that was crusing from the German port of Bremen to Port Said in Egypt.

It was crusing 27km (17 miles) north of the island of Ameland, round 180km from Amsterdam, when the hearth began, an announcement stated.

The ship had round 3,000 automobiles on board, in keeping with Dutch broadcaster NOS, and the hearth is suspected to have began in one of many 25 electrical automobiles on board, the news service added, citing a spokesperson for the coast guard.

Emergency companies are nonetheless current close to the blazing ship, which sails underneath a Panamanian flag.