A major fire broke out at a tobacco-processing and cigarette-filter-tube manufacturing facility in Akdeniz district of Mersin, Türkiye.

The blaze started in one of the facility’s warehouses before rapidly spreading to two adjacent storage buildings. Thick plumes of smoke rose above the city’s First Organized Industrial Zone, according to TRT Haber.

Fire crews from Mersin Municipality and emergency teams from the industrial zone were dispatched to the scene to tackle the fire.

Firefighting operations and efforts to cool the affected structures are ongoing. Police are investigating the cause of the blaze.