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Fire rips through Greek migrant camp

Thousands of people fled a migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos after fire ripped through tents and destroyed containers during violence among residents, police said.

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Fire rips through Greek migrant camp

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  1. Fire tears through Greek vagrant camp

  2. A smoldered shoe is seen on the ground. The flame was over by early afternoon on Tuesday at the Moria camp which houses the 5,700 transients on the island and numerous individuals had returned, however kids had been exchanged to different offices, police said. No losses were accounted for from the flame and its cause was not clear. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

  3. The stays of a blazed tent at the Moria vagrant camp. The United Nations outcast office, UNHCR, connected the flame to poor living conditions and a feeling of weakness among a large portion of the occupants. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

  4. A transient is secured with a cover after a flame at the Moria vagrant camp. Displaced people and transients on Lesbos are stranded there by an European Union manage Turkey forestalling them going past the island until their refuge claims have been prepared. The individuals who don't qualify will be extradited to Turkey. Intimenews/Manolis Lagoutaris/by means of REUTERS

  5. Refugees and transients stand at the shut door of the Moria vagrant camp, after a flame at the office. Pressures have bubbled over at stuffed camps on Greece's islands as the moderate preparing of refuge solicitations adds to dissatisfaction over extreme living conditions. Greek media said the conflicts on Monday emitted among inhabitants taking after talk that several individuals would be extradited. Intimenews/Manolis Lagoutaris/through REUTERS

  6. A transient stands by a smoldered tent at the Moria vagrant camp. Roland Schoenbauer, UNHCR's representative in Greece, said individuals were "tired of holding up" in the camps. "They don't know when their haven cases will be handled. A few people feel they don't have enough data," he said. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

  7. A transient stands among the remaining parts of a smoldered tent at the Moria vagrant camp. About 60 percent of the Moria camp, including tents and metal-roofed lodges, had been demolished by the flame, a police official said. Work was in progress on Tuesday to set up new tents, Police Minister Nikos Toskas said. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

  8. Migrants stand among the remaining parts of a smoldered tent at the Moria transient camp. No less than nine individuals were captured on allegations of harming property and bringing on turmoil and were relied upon to show up before a prosecutor, a police official in Athens said. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

  9. A transient lady conveys a child as she stands by the remaining parts of a blazed tent at the Moria vagrant camp. Panos Navrozidis, Greece chief of help office International Rescue Committee, said the camp had been working at over-limit for a considerable length of time, with individuals packed into the office with restricted access to water, and in conditions that don't meet philanthropic standards.

  10. A transient (R) responds as he strolls beside the remaining parts of blazed tents at the Moria vagrant camp. Thousands have connected for shelter and the hold up is long, going from weeks to months. A little more than 500 individuals have been expelled to Turkey since March however none of the individuals who have asked for refuge were among those, Greece says. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

  11. Children stroll alongside the remaining parts of smoldered tents at the Moria transient camp. In spite of a lull in entries from Turkey contrasted with a year ago, more than 13,500 transients and displaced people are presently living on eastern Aegean islands, almost twofold a limit of 7,450. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

  12. Migrants stroll by the remaining parts of smoldered tents at the Moria vagrant camp. "The circumstance is troublesome," Christiana Kalogirou, regent of the north Aegean locale, told Greek TV. "There is an extraordinary requirement for decongestion of the islands ... later on things could turn out to be a great deal more troublesome," she said. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

  13. Refugees and transients stand at the shut entryway of the Moria vagrant camp, after a flame at the office. Counting those on the islands, there are 60,000 vagrants and displaced people stranded in Greece, for the most part Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans who made dangerous excursions in feeble inflatable water crafts. Intimenews/Manolis Lagoutaris/by means of REUTERS

  14. A transient stands among the remaining parts of a smoldered tent at the Moria transient camp, after a flame that tore through tents and wrecked compartments amid viciousness among occupants, on the island of Lesbos, Greece, September 20, 2016. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis

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