Source::AP News
A portion of the structure, which houses a hotel, cafes, and a chocolate shop, was reportedly damaged as 1 million liters (264,000 gallons) of water leaked from the aquarium just before 6 a.m., according to the police (0500 GMT). According to Berlin's fire department, two people had minor injuries.
Union Investment Real Estate, the business that owns the AquaDom, stated in a statement Friday afternoon that the incident's circumstances were "still unclear."
The tank had released a "true tsunami" of water, said to Mayor Franziska Giffey, but the early morning timing had kept many more people from getting hurt.
We were still quite fortunate, she continued, despite all the destruction. If the aquarium had exploded even an hour later, when more people would have been awake and around the hotel and the surrounding neighborhood, she claimed, "we would have tremendous human loss."
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