German newspaper Soester Anzeiger reported that a "small technical defect" involving a storage tank caused the liquid chocolate leak from a DreiMeister chocolate factory in Westoennen on Monday night.

It's Augustus Gloop's dream come true. A street in a western German town was transformed into something out of a Roald Dahl book, after a river of chocolate overflowed from a factory Monday and ...

A street in a western German town turned into a scene out of the fantasy film “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory” this week when a river of chocolate came oozing out of a nearby factory ...

There was one sweet mess in the German town of Werl on Monday, when liquid chocolate seeped out of a factory and onto the street. A storage tank overflowed at DreiMeister's chocolate factory ...

liquid chocolate began streaming out of the DreiMeister chocolate factory in Westonnen, a suburb of Werl, Germany. A tank at the factory had overflowed, prompting a river of chocolate to breach ...

BERLIN — Firefighters in the town of Werl in western Germany tackled an unusual emergency late on Monday when a tank at a local firm making liquid chocolate overflowed and poured out onto a street.