Two people were injured as a spectacular vertical aquarium exploded in a Berlin hotel this morning, showering the atrium with broken glass, exotic fish and about a million litres of water.
The AquaDom, billed as the world’s largest freestanding aquarium, was 16m high, with a transparent lift running down its core and nearly a hundred different species of marine life in its tank.
At about 5.40am local time guests in the Radisson hotel were woken by a thunderous noise as the clear acrylic walls shattered for reasons that have yet to be determined. Two bystanders were taken to hospital with wounds from glass splinters and about 1,500 fish are reported to have died.
A hotel guest said the lobby had been left carpeted with dead fish
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One guest whose room overlooked the devastated aquarium said they had been