Workers hospitalised after Belfast airport mercury spill

A plane was cordoned off at Belfast City Airport and two workers taken to hospital today after a mercury spillage.

The spillage was discovered by baggage handlers as passengers left a flybe flight which arrived from Birmingham just after 8am.

However, airport authorities insisted that the 83 passengers and five crew were not at risk and they were able to collect their luggage.

It is understood two baggage handlers were taken to hospital as a precaution.