LESBOS ISLAND: Greece on Monday accused migrants of deliberately burning their overcrowded camp last week on Lesbos island, where hundreds reluctantly moved to a new temporary site with “no showers or mattresses”. Families, children, young men and pregnant women have been left wandering aimlessly since a blaze ripped through the Moria camp on the night of Sept 8, forcing its 12,000 occupants to sleep rough in abandoned buildings, on roadsides and even rooftops. “The camp was burned by refugees and migrants who wanted to...
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