Amsterdam to house migrants on cruise ship moored in port

A man prays under a tarpaulin as hundreds of migrants prepared to spend the night outside an overcrowded asylum seeker centre in Ter Apel, northern Netherlands (Peter Dejong)

Amsterdam has approved a plan to temporarily accommodate at least 1,000 migrants on a cruise ship moored in the Dutch capital’s port.

The move comes as the Netherlands seeks to end an accommodation crisis that last week saw hundreds of asylum seekers sleeping outside a reception centre.