Four foreign citizens have been taken to hospital following a brawl that involved Syrian and Afghan nationals in a refugee camp in Bulgaria, bTV channel reported on Wednesday.

A recently renovated building of the refugee camp in Harmanli, in southern Bulgaria close the border with Turkey, was severely damaged during the accident late on Tuesday.

According to police sources, four refugees were taken to hospital in the nearby town of Haskovo in serious condition with multiple injuries but their lives were not in danger.

The building where refugees from Afghanistan are accommodated had many of its windows and doors smashed and metal beds destroyed during the brawl.

The reasons for the accident were not immediately known, bTV said.