This is what Moria camp looks like after the great fire – VG

In the Moria camp, despair is overwhelming. Several thousand migrants are scattered over a large area after the great fire on Wednesday night.

Below you can see what the camp looks like today.

Many people seem to wander aimlessly looking for water and something to eat in the ruins of the fire. Others transport homemade wagons with water. Some have managed to rescue some belongings they carry with them under the scorching sun.

They don’t know where to get their next meal.

– We have nothing, just a package of cookies, says Ziwersheh Sefi (30) while looking down at her four-year-old daughter Helen. Together with his wife and two daughters, he has lived in the camp for two years.

They desperately escaped from their tent that had to give way to flames Wednesday night. Now they have temporarily sought refuge with their close neighbor.

But while VG talks to the Afghan family, it starts to burn a lot and once again the family has to flee. Black smoke rises into the sky and firefighters enter.

– I do not know what to do now. Tomorrow we will have no food, says Ziwersheh.

The only solution he can think of is to get closer to the sea, but hundreds of migrants have already settled there before him.

You don’t know how to prepare the next meal for the family of four.

Brothers burned

Although the Greek authorities claim that no one has been injured in the fires, VG comes across two young brothers from Afghanistan who are being rushed to hospital with what were likely severe burns.

The two young brothers cry silently as volunteer helpers apply cream to their burns. Her mother is desperate, but lets VG take a picture of the children in her deepest despair.

They, like thousands of other migrants, have lost what little they had in the sea of ​​flames. According to aid workers, the brothers ended up in a gas explosion caused by the fires.

Now only the tent poles remain, but they are barely visible behind the thick layer of smoke that hangs over much of the campground. It appears that a bomb exploded in an area hundreds of meters in each direction.

The camp once hosted up to 17,000 migrants from around the world. Now only a few hundred remain inside the camp. The rest have gone to other parts of the island.

Looting the ruins

– The fire was very big. We started running, says Ahmad Iafari (23) from Afghanistan about when the fire started the night before Wednesday.

Together with Fatemeh Hoseini (24), they managed to escape alive from the great fire. The two came from Afghanistan via Turkey.

Now they are looting food and water in the ruins of the fire.

Hundreds of meters from the camp, hundreds of migrants have gathered along the road and in the surrounding olive grove. There, the family of eleven-year-old Amhadi Nazani from Afghanistan bakes bread in a makeshift oven for the night.

Amhadi remembers Wednesday night as the worst day of his life.

– Everything burned. It was horrible. I was so scared that I can say it was the worst day of my life. Everything we had has burned, he tells VG.

When asked what he wanted to do with a new life in Europe, the 11-year-old says he wanted to be a doctor.

– I don’t know what our destiny will be. Now I want to leave this camp and this island. We want to go to a safe place. We want a good life, a normal life, he says.