More than 20.000 pigs died in a barn fire in Erichem in Gelderland on Thursday evening. Asbestos was also released in the immediate vicinity. Never before have so many pigs died in a barn fire.
It would be pigsty 'Knorhof' in Erichem, which falls under the municipality of Buren. The company is owned by the Dutch pig farmer Adriaan Straathof, who is known as one of the largest pig farmers in Europe.
Hundreds of thousands of pigs
Straathof keeps hundreds of thousands of pigs on several farms in the Netherlands, Germany and Hungary. The NOS reported in 2014 that its farms produce about 1,5 million piglets per year.
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