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37 injured after fire breaks out at migrant center in Germany

Published: 11 Jun 2017 - 01:30 pm | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 04:00 am
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QNA

Bremen, Germany: Thirty-seven people were injured in a fire that broke out in a migrant housing center in the northern German city of Bremen.

The Fire department said that 14 of the injured, including the 10 children, were taken to hospital.

The fire broke out last night in the basement of a five-story building and when firefighters arrived, many people stood by the windows shouting for help.

The fire started in a rubbish bin in the basement of the building which houses more than 100 refugees, a police spokesman said.

Police have so far been unable to say anything about the cause of the fire.

Germany has seen a sharp rise in far-right violence amid the influx of more than a million migrants over the past two years, according to an annual report from Germany's domestic intelligence agency.