Giant 82ft-high aquarium containing 1,500 fish explodes in Berlin

Two people were injured and have been taken to hospital

A huge aquarium exploded inside a German hotel in the early hours of Friday morning, unleashing a "tsunami" of water, and killing 1,500 tropical fish.

The 46ft-high tank, called the AquaDom, was a popular tourist attraction located in the foyer of the Radisson Blu hotel in central Berlin.

But at around 5.50am on Friday (December 15), it burst, killing all of the 1,500 tropical fish housed in the aquarium and unleashing a million litres of water into the lobby.

The explosion cut off electricity in the hotel, and two people were injured from glass shards.

Police said "massive amounts" of water was flowing into nearby streets and people in the area should drive cautiously, the BBC reports.

A police source told local media there is no evidence that the incident was the result of a targeted attack. [caption id="attachment_370926" align="alignnone" width="1153"] (SWNS)[/caption] The mayor of Berlin has visited the hotel to see the damage, and expressed her relief that the explosion happened in the early hours of the morning, pointing out that an hour or so later an the lobby would have been busy with visitors, many of them children.

AquaDom was opened in December 2003 and was given the Guinness World Record for being the world's largest cylindrical aquarium.

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According to reports at the time of its construction, it cost about €12.8m (£11.2m) to build.

It contained more than 100 different species of fish.

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