The fire brigade fighting the flames in the refugee shelter in Apolda. © Johannes Krey/Jkfotografie&tv/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa
In Apolda, Thuringia, a refugee shelter catches fire. For one person, any help comes too late, eight others are injured. The cause of the fire is still unclear.
Apolda - A dead person has been found in a refugee shelter in Apolda after a fire. Eight other people were injured, as the police and the spokeswoman for the Weimarer Land district office said. Previously, MDR Thuringia had reported. The fire is said to have broken out early Sunday morning. The cause of the fire is still unclear. Fire investigators were requested, said the spokeswoman for the district office.
According to the spokeswoman, about 300 people live in the shelter. Since the building was uninhabitable after the fire, people were taken by bus to an initial reception center for refugees in Hermsdorf in the Saale-Holzland district. Dpa