One person is missing after a cargo ship ran into a US-military charted tanker in the North Sea. Dozens of people were rescued in a major operation being coordinated by the UK Coastguard. Images showed a huge plume of thick, black smoke and flames rising from the scene about 10 miles (16 kilometres) off the eastern coast. The Stena Immaculate tanker was carrying around 220,000 barrels of jet fuel while the Solong was carrying 15 containers of sodium cyanide, according to the Lloyd’s List information service. It is not known if any of the flammable compound had leaked, but it is \”not persistent, it’s not like a crude oil spill\”, an environmental risk advisory group’s founder said. The jet fuel entered the water close to a breeding ground for harbour porpoises, sodium cyanides is \”a highly toxic chemical that could cause serious harm\”, he added. The alarm about the crash near the port city of Hull in East Yorkshire was raised at 0948 GMT.