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Migrants coming to Europe are having their temporary homes attacked
In Germany, two refugee shelters were set ablaze with five migrants injured
More than 100 firefighters were called to the scene to douse the flames
Elsewhere, fires and fighting also broke out at the infamous Calais 'jungle'

Published: 11:21 EST, 7 September 2015 | Updated: 13:55 EST, 7 September 2015

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Migrants flooding into Europe are being subjected to attacks on their emergency accommodation as the refugee crisis deepens.

A suspected suspiscious blaze at a refugee shelter in Germany injured five people earlier today while fires and fighting broke out at the infamous Calais 'jungle' camp.

It comes amid claims from the UN that its humanitarian agencies are 'financially broke' as the organisation attempts to provide aid for tens of thousands of people fleeing war.

Firefighters work to douse the flames after temporary refugee accommodation was set alight in Rottenburg in Germany

Smoke billows from the building, which saw 80 refugees have to be evacuated and another five taken to hospital with injuries

Police in Germany say they are investigating one fire at a refugee shelter that left five people injured, in the second of such blazes targeting migrants.

Officers were investigating the causes of the fires which came after a spate of arson attacks against refugee homes.

One of the fires destroyed dozens of portable homes and forced the evacuation of 80 refugees, in Rottenburg in the western state of Baden-Wurttemberg, said police.

More than 100 firefighters were called to douse the flames.

Five people suffered injuries when they jumped from windows or had to be treated for smoke inhalation.

Officers were investigating the causes of the fires which came after a spate of arson attacks against refugee homes

The other blaze hit buildings scheduled to become shelters in the town of Ebeleben in the state of Thuringia in the formerly communist east, causing no injuries. Police said they did not rule out arson.

Meanwhile riot police, firefighters and ambulance crews were rushed to the infamous Calais 'Jungle' last night as fighting broke out and migrants burnt piles of clothes in protest at their conditions.

Trouble began in the afternoon after Ethiopians began fighting and a man was hospitalised with a broken nose.

Armed riot police stood by in case of further trouble and at 9pm there was further fighting and migrants piled up clothes and set fire to them.

Fearing that the blaze would spread to dry furze and undergrowth on dunes around the Jules ferry camp firemen protected by police moved in and extinguished the blaze.

Migrants gather at the 'Jungle' refugee camp in Calais, where riot police were called after fires and fighting broke out last night

Trouble began in the afternoon after Ethiopians began fighting and a man was hospitalised with a broken nose

150 kilos of clothes and blankets were said to have gone up in smoke.

Firemen were called in again during the evening after several other fires were started in various parts of the camp where over 3000 Africans and Asians sleep in tents and makeshift huts.

A second man was taken to hospital suffering from injuries understood to have been sustained during fighting .

With increased security and fencing around the ferry terminal and the Eurostar station near the entrance to the Channel Tunnel far fewer migrants than in July and August are succeeding in getting onto trains and ferries bound for the UK.

Even so Eurostar passengers spent hours stuck in the Channel Tunnel last Tuesday with no power and air conditioning after migrants managed to break into the heavily protected Eurostar terminal and clambered onto the roof of a train.