EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY BERLIN ARRIVALS Migrants arriving in Berlin housed at Olympic park

Record ID: 141245

  • Title: EUROPE-MIGRANTS/GERMANY BERLIN ARRIVALS Migrants arriving in Berlin housed at Olympic park
  • Date: 10th September 2015
  • Summary: BERLIN, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 10, 2015) (REUTERS) BUS CARRYING MIGRANTS ARRIVING BUS DISPLAY READING (German) 'SPECIAL TRIP' MIGRANTS ON BUS MIGRANTS EXITING BUS VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS WALKING FROM BUS TOWARDS EMERGENCY SHELTER VARIOUS OF MIGRANTS OUTSIDE EMERGENCY SHELTER EXTERIOR OF EMERGENCY SHELTER IN SPORTS CENTRE SIGN READING (German) 'HORST KORBER SPORTS CENTRE' 'RUDOLF HARBIG SPORTS HALL' 'OLYMPIC LIAISON OFFICE' VARIOUS OF CAMP BEDS STACKED IN SPORTS HALL
  • Embargoed: 25th September 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Germany
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVABZR5U7AQJKVV4ICDRJQP86AQ6
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Some 500 migrants arrived in Berlin on Thursday (September 10), according to the Berlin senate administration of health and social security. They arrived in the capital by special trains and were then taken by bus to sports halls at the Olympic park.
    According to media reports some 500 camp beds were set up at the Horst Korber sports centre. An additional 500 camp beds are expected to be set up over the next couple of days at the Rudolf Harbig sports hall.
    The fallback accommodation was sought by Berlin authorities after the original emergency shelter at an old army barracks reached capacity.
    A total of about 33,000 asylum seekers have arrived at Munich's main railway station since the beginning of September, as many as in the whole of 2014, the district government of Upper Bavaria said on Wednesday (September 9).
    The federal government has said it expects 800,000 people to seek asylum in Germany this year.
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