12 injured in Germany as fire rips through foreign workers' home

October 20, 2015 | 11:30

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Twelve people were injured after a fire broke out on Monday at a building housing mostly migrant workers from Bulgaria and Poland, German police said, adding that there were no immediate indications about the cause of the blaze.

Members of the fire brigade work at the scene of a fire in a house occupied mainly by Bulgarian and Polish workers and their families, many of whom were injured in Gudensberg, central Germany. (AFP PHOTO/DPA/UWE ZUCCH)

BERLIN: Twelve people were injured after a fire broke out on Monday (Oct 19) at a building housing mostly migrant workers from Bulgaria and Poland, German police said, adding that there were no immediate indications about the cause of the blaze.

Five of the injured were seriously hurt when the fire ripped through the half-timber building, located in the central German town of Gudensberg.

Germany has been hit by a spate of arson attacks on refugee shelters as the country gears up to host up to a million asylum seekers this year.

It was not immediately known whether the Gudensberg incident was a deliberate act of violence or an accident, police said.

AFP

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