![]() ![]() The road as well as the pavements outside the complex were littered with debris. ![]() “If the whole thing had happened an hour later, we would have had to report terrible human damage.”Įmergency services shut an adjacent major road that leads from Alexanderplatz toward the Brandenburg Gate owing to the large volume of water that had flooded out of the building. ![]() “A proper tsunami poured forth over the premises of the hotel and adjacent restaurants,” she said. “I thought it was an earthquake.”īerlin’s mayor, Franziska Giffey, visited the scene. “Our whole bed was shaking,” another guest told the Tagesspiegel newspaper. The huge volume of water in the "Aqua-Dom," the enormous, cylindrical tank situated directly over a bar in the lobby, put sufficient force behind the tank's failure to send debris flying "abruptly" in all directions, police said.The 14-metre-high tank. The "Aqua-Dom" saltwater aquarium is seen in the lobby of a business and leisure complex in Berlin, Germany, in a file image taken from video shot in 2003. The fire department was alerted by an automatic alarm in the DomAquarée complex, which houses various businesses including a Radisson Blu hotel, at the same time. ![]() Police said they were alerted to a loud noise in Berlin's Mitte district at around 5:45 a.m. Police and fire department officials said two people were injured by shards of glass and the explosive force of the aquarium's failure sent parts of the building's facade flying onto the street outside. Aquarium holding 1,500 fish bursts in Berlin hotel 00:21īerlin - The huge saltwater aquarium burst open Friday morning without any immediate explanation, spilling almost 265,000 gallons of water and 1,500 fish onto the floor of a business and leisure complex in a busy district of Germany's capital. ![]()
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