Huge fish tank leaking after blaze

SEA water is leaking from two cracks in Europe’s second largest fish tank, after a fire destroyed the museum that had been housing the aquarium in Denmark.

Huge fish tank leaking after blaze

The fate of the 5,000 fish that live inside the tank was not known, but officials said a system of pipes that oxygenates the water, enabling fish to breathe, was damaged.

The 1.2m gallon aquarium counts among its specimens a 440-pound, six-foot sunfish, one of the largest boned fish in the world.

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