US company to send team to look into Berlin aquarium rupture

Police have said they found no evidence of a malicious act but the cause of the spectacular collapse shortly before 6am on Friday, in which two people were slightly injured, remains unclear.

A dead fish in the debris in front of the hotel (Soeren Stache/dpa)

A US company that helped build a huge aquarium in Berlin says it is sending a team to investigate the rupture of the tank, which sent a wave of debris, water and tropical fish crashing through the hotel reception it was located in and on to the street outside.

Reynolds Polymer Technology, which says it manufactured and installed the cylinder component of the aquarium tank 20 years ago, said in a statement that “at this point, it is too early to determine the factor or factors that would produce such a failure”.