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Published more: 2015-09-16 18:04 | SR - SVERIGES RADIO

5,200 apply for asylum in Sweden in one week

Refugees at Malmö central station. Photo: Ola Torkelsson/TT

Over 1,800 people have applied for asylum in Malmö over the past week. 1,100 of them came during Tuesday and Wednesday.

On Tuesday evening, there were so many people coming that the Migration Agency had to close a reception centre for two hours.

"There were a lot of people coming at the same time, so for safety reasons we could not allow everybody into the premises at the same time. It only has capacity for a hundred people," said Matilda Niang, at the Migration Agency's press service, to explain the temporary closure.

Some of the people...