Fire at Lindt & Spruengli factory in Switzerland injures two (updated)

Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli AG

11/07/2017 16:48

(Adds police comment on suspected cause of fire and damages) 
    ZURICH, July 11 (Reuters) - A fire broke out at a chocolate 
factory at Lindt & Spruengli's   LISP.S  LISN.S  headquarters in 
Kilchberg near Zurich on Tuesday but was quickly extinguished, 
Swiss police and the company said. 
    Two people sustained slight injuries and the Zurich cantonal 
police said investigators suspected a machine overheating was 
the cause of the fire.  
    "We had to evacuate the building, a few people appear to 
have suffered smoke poisoning," a spokeswoman for the cantonal 
police said. 
    The police said the cost of the physical damages to the 
factory would amount to several thousand Swiss francs. 
    Lindt & Spruengli, which owns the Russell Stover brand of 
chocolates in the United States, is known for its gold 
foil-wrapped Easter chocolate bunnies and Lindor chocolate 
balls. The company has factories in Switzerland, Germany, Italy, 
France, Austria and the United States. 
 
 (Reporting by Silke Koltrowitz and Joshua Franklin; Editing by 
Mark Potter and Susan Fenton) 
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