The Latest: Germany: Rejected asylum-seeker sets self ablaze
Source: Associated Press
Updated 12:00 pm, Tuesday, May 29, 2018
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migrant crisis (all times local):
7:55 p.m.
German authorities say a rejected asylum-seeker from Iran suffered serious injuries after setting fire to himself at a town office near the southwestern city of Ulm.
Police said the 35-year-old, whose name wasn't released, entered the town office in Goeppingen midday Tuesday and asked two employees for help, showing them papers indicating his application for asylum had been rejected.
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The Hungarian government has submitted to parliament constitutional amendments and a new draft law further tightening the country's laws on refugees and asylum-seekers.
The legislation submitted Tuesday, which would likely complement draft bills already presented earlier this year by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Cabinet, seeks to prevent Hungary "from becoming an immigrant country."
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