Asylum seekers set fire out of frustration

hovelhof - The fire in the German refugee camp in Hövelhof was probably ignited frustration. The prosecutor said Friday three young asylum seekers of 20 and 21 years old been indicted. They would have come to their act of dissatisfaction with the housing at the former military complex near Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia.

An expert confirmed that the fire started in the room where the suspects were staying and has spread rapidly from there. The whole hut was reduced to ashes and two adjacent shelters were uninhabitable. Several people were just. Thirty of them were to be treated in a hospital, most due to suffocation. One has serious condition.

Police stopped Thursday night two other men who were possibly involved in the arson, but they went unpunished.

In the neighboring Bad Lippspringe Thursday fire was set in a cellar of a shelter. The prosecution does not in this case of xenophobia. No one was injured.