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The Latest on Europe's migrant crisis (all times local):

7:55 p.m.

German authorities say a rejected asylum-seeker from Iran suffered serious injuries after setting fire to himself at a town office near the southwestern city of Ulm.

Police said the 35-year-old, whose name wasn't released, entered the town office in Goeppingen midday Tuesday and asked two employees for help, showing them papers indicating his application for asylum had been rejected.

Ulm police say the staff assured him they would help, but the man became aggressive and then pulled a bottle out of his backpack, poured liquid over himself and set fire to it as the two workers fled.

A third worker grabbed towels from a cleaner's cart and suffocated the flames.

Police say the man was rushed to hospital by helicopter and is being treated for severe burns.

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7:40 p.m.

The Hungarian government has submitted to parliament constitutional amendments and a new draft law further tightening the country's laws on refugees and asylum-seekers.

The legislation submitted Tuesday, which would likely complement draft bills already presented earlier this year by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Cabinet, seeks to prevent Hungary "from becoming an immigrant country."

The bills, dubbed "Stop Soros" by the government, also target activities of civic groups, some supported by Hungarian-American financier George Soros, which give legal aid and other support to asylum-seekers.

Among other points, the Hungarian Constitution would be amended to say that "foreign populations cannot be settled in Hungary" and would place limits on who is eligible for asylum.

Orban's Fidesz party won a two-thirds majority in April's elections, allowing them to modify the constitution unchallenged.

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1:45 p.m.

Authorities on Greece's island of Crete say 70 migrants have been removed from a yacht and detained after entering Greek waters.

The migrants, including 20 children, were being taken Tuesday in three coast guard vessels to the port of Kissamos, on the western part of the island, officials from the Merchant Marine Ministry said.

Greece is grappling with a surge in migrant arrivals in recent months on the islands and at its land border with Turkey. The fresh influx has worsened overcrowding at state-run camps and prompted the government to open new sites.

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1:30 p.m.

A spokeswoman for the United Nations' refugee agency says the bodies of nine Syrian migrants who drowned off Cyprus' northern coast have been buried in the breakaway north of the ethnically divided island.

Emilia Strovolidou told the Associated Press on Tuesday that the nine men died earlier this month in what the United Nations refugee agency said was the first shipwreck off Cyprus involving migrants.

She said most of the nine, who hailed from the Syrian town of Idlib, were identified by relatives living in the island's southern, internationally recognized part.

Strovolidou said the Syrians had reportedly taken a boat from Turkey on May 10 to join relatives in Cyprus.

The U.N. refugee agency has said approximately 1,900 migrants came to Cyprus in 40 boat trips since 2015.