Some 200 migrants held a noisy protest over their detention this evening in an incident sparked by a broken drinking water boiler.

The protest took place within Safi detention camp. Members of the Police Special Assignment Group were called in as a precaution but the protest calmed down without serious incident.

A member of the detention service was slightly injured when he was hit by a shaving foam can thrown by the migrants.

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