An Iranian man has been arrested after threatening to blow himself up at an asylum center in Denmark this morning.
The man climbed onto the roof near the town of Nyborg, which currently houses 500 migrants.
“The person is on the asylum center’s roof. Police and emergency workers are on location and the residents of the center are being evacuated,” a police spokesperson said.
The 22-year-old appeared to be holding something in his hand and was talking to another man.
A no-fly zone was established and all residents were evacuated.
The centre’s director Jannie Staal told the Fyens.dk news website the man was an asylum seeker but lived at another center.
Police officers cordoned off a hundred meter stretch of the road, the fire brigade was also present at the scene.
The police were alerted to the incident at around 11:16 a.m..
Around 7,000 people apply for asylum in Denmark ever year.
Photo: AFP
