Dutch authorities are investigating the death of a three-month-old infant at a makeshift shelter as the country struggles to accommodate an influx of asylum seekers.
Hundreds have been left to sleep outside and in tents in conditions aid agencies described as “inhumane.”The baby died Wednesday morning in Ter Apel, a northeastern village that serves as a port of entry to the Dutch asylum system. The infant was at a sports facility that was converted into an emergency shelter after the area’s main refugee center ran out of room.
State Secretary for Asylum and Migration Eric van der Burg said he was “deeply shocked” by the incident,, but authorities gave no further details about the circumstances of the child’s death. The incident put a spotlight on the increasingly dire conditions for asylum seekers in the Netherlands, where a housing crunch, insufficient shelter space and reduced immigration staff have created dangerous bottlenecks at the country’s refugee centers. Thousands of refugees are now living in emergency shelters such as tents, gyms and event halls, according to rights advocates.The situation is so critical, aid agencies say, that at least one refugee rights group has sued the Dutch government.
“It is unprecedented that we are providing medical assistance in the Netherlands, but the conditions in which these people find themselves are inhumane,” Judith Sargentini, director of Doctors Without Borders for the Netherlands, said in a statement.Thursday that 700 people have been sleeping on the street in Ter Apel in recent days after the refugee center, which can house up to 2,000 people, ran out of space.
Ter Apel last night where a humanitarian crisis is unfolding, hundreds of refugees slept on the ground outside the refugee centre
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