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Berlin16 meter high aquarium burst – large-scale operation in the hotel
It’s a well-known tourist attraction in Berlin: the large aquarium Sealife in a hotel near Alexanderplatz. A large part of it has now been destroyed.
It burst on Friday morning.
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Two people were injured.
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A large-scale operation is underway at the Hotel DomAquareé in Berlin.
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The huge aquarium burst and the water ran out.
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Two people were injured.
According to the police, the large aquarium at Sea Life near the Berlin Cathedral has burst. That said a police spokesman who was on site on Friday morning. Around 5:45 a.m. there was a very loud noise. Parts of the facade of the hotel in which the aquarium was located flew onto the street. The pressure of the explosion shattered doors and windows. Two people were injured by broken glass.
The fire brigade reported on Twitter in the morning: “The aquarium is damaged, water is leaking. The situation is not clear at the moment.” The fire brigade is deployed with 100 firefighters in the Hotel DomAquarée.
There are large-scale barriers around the Berlin hotel where the burst large aquarium is located.
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There were a number of fire brigade and police cars on site on Friday morning.
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The doors of the building seemed to be pushed open, in front of them were a number of objects, as a dpa reporter reported.
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The Berlin traffic information center tweeted that Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse, where the hotel with the aquarium is located, was closed. “There is a lot of water on the road. So far, the cause is still unclear.” The place is very close to the Alexanderplatz in Berlin with the TV Tower.
In the building complex called DomAquarée is the large aquarium Sea Life and the so-called AquaDom with 1500 tropical fish, a well-known attraction in Berlin for many tourists. As stated on the DomAquarée website, the AquaDom is the “largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium in the world” and was extensively modernized by summer 2020.
(DPA/fur)