Asylum-seeker home in northwestern Germany firebombed overnight; no injuries
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Police say a petrol bomb was thrown through a window at an asylum-seekers' home in a town in northwestern Germany, starting a small fire but injuring none of the residents.
Police spokesman Jens Petersen told the dpa news agency Friday that a mattress and a rug caught fire in the attack overnight on the school building in Salzhemmendorf that had been converted to house some 30 asylum seekers. The blaze was quickly extinguished.
Petersen says a woman and her three young children sleeping in a room next to the fire were unharmed. Police are looking for a car seen leaving the area around the time of the attack.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Germany has been largely welcoming to the massive influx of migrants this year, but attacks on them and shelters have also increased.