Workers scramble over fences running for their lives as a huge fire rips through a roast chicken factory in Thailand this morning.<br /><br />Smoke was seen coming from an unmanned room where the chicken was being processed 10.25am local time in Korat, Thailand. <br /><br />Staff in white hygiene suits and masks fled for their lives - telling officials people were ''stomping on top of each other'' to escape the blaze.<br /><br />Fire crews arrived, but as of 1.30pm local time the flames were still raging as engines battled to contain the blaze.<br /><br />Onlooker Nop Apidach who recorded a video of the panic said: ''This is a really big fire. It's so scary. I hope everybody is safe.''<br /><br />Wichan Chanthanon, Governor of the Nakhon Ratchasima province, said fire engines were still unable to control the fire some three hours later.<br /><br />He said: ''Many patients have been taken to hospital with smoke inhalation symptoms.<br /><br />''The fire started in the electric chicken grill in the roast chicken department. There were 20 people working there.<br /><br />''The staff saw the flames spread quickly and ran away. They were stomped and many were injured, some also the smoke.''<br /><br />The fire broke out at the Vanguard Foods factory which processes chicken to be sent abroad for use in food.
