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Picture of the devastation: rubble and inventory were washed onto the sidewalk in front of the hotel where the Aquadom large aquarium was located.
Photo: MICHELE TANTUSSI / REUTERS
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Emergency services on site in Berlin-Mitte: Huge amounts of water ran onto the street.
Photo: MICHELE TANTUSSI / REUTERS
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Eyewitness photos show a devastated hotel atrium.
Photo: private
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Before that, the huge aquarium, the Aquadom, located in the middle of the building, had burst.
Two people were injured.
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Private
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This is what the lobby looked like before: The Aquadom housed around 1500 tropical fish.
Inside the aquarium, a two-story elevator took visitors through the underwater world.
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Kay Nietfeld / picture alliance / dpa
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The Aquadom after renovation work: The huge aquarium had a 14 meter high water column and was filled with around one million liters of water.
Photo: Annette Riedl / dpa
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Fire brigade and police forces in action on Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse in front of the hotel in the morning.
The majority of the fish could not be saved, said a fire department spokesman for the AFP news agency.
Photo: Christoph Soeder / dpa
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