Seven people were hospitalized after a mass fight in a refugee accommodation center in western Berlin, local media reported Sunday.

BERLIN (Sputnik) – According to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper citing the police, the scuffle took place Saturday night. The people involved in the fight used fire extinguishers, with some 500 people fleeing the building due to noise and foam. Several police patrols, fire fighters and a translator attended to the fight.

The inhabitants of the center were only able to return to their accommodation in the middle of the night. The police filed several cases of bodily harm.

A similar event transpired in the Saxony-Anhalt state of Germany on the same night. Five people were injured, with the police filing a case of grievous bodily harm.

Europe is currently dealing with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict-torn countries in the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety and shelter.

German Justice Minister Warns of Chaos if Berlin Shuts Down Border

Calls have been made in the ruling party of Chancellor Angela Merkel to shut down the national border to middle-aged male refugees travelling alone, among other proposals, but the German leader refused to act on them.

"Closing internal borders would be counterproductive and would only make the situation more chaotic," Heiko Maas said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag.

The justice minister explained that refugees travelling to Germany through Balkans would be forced to seek illegal ways into the country, bypassing official crossings and making immigration extremely hard to account for.

"This won’t work," he noted, adding that if Germany and other EU countries start sending refugees away this would cause an "anarchic domino effect" in the region. Instead, he urged to tighten controls on the EU’s external border to better process incoming immigrants.

According to Die Welt newspaper, some 950,000 immigrants have arrived in Germany this year, although the German government continues to stick to its forecast of 800,000 arrivals by the end of 2015.