Photo: Björn Lindgren/TTTT/The Local · 31 Aug 2016, 08:35Published: 31 Aug 2016 08:35 GMT+02:00A 17-year-old boy from Eritrea was just about to get a decision on his asylum application when he hopped on the wrong train and wound up in Denmark. When border police at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport on August 11th saw the boy’s official asylum seeker photo ID, they understood that something was wrong and contacted the asylum home where he lived in Vellinge. The 17-year-old also lost the right to return to the asylum accommodation in Vellinge, and will most likely have to reapply for asylum if he manages to return. “It’s a catastrophe as far as his wellbeing is concerned,” Hamfors told Sydsvenskan. Story continues below…Mikael Kinning, who works with the Red Cross in Vellinge, criticized the migration agency’s bureaucratic response to the error.

Source: The Local August 31, 2016 06:56 UTC