In Greece, police used gas on migrants from a burned camp

Crowds of migrants rushed to the city of Mytilini to board the boat and threw stones at the police, who blocked their way.

On the Greek island of Lesbos, police used tear gas against migrants from the burned-out Moriah refugee camp, Greece’s largest refugee camp, where a coronavirus outbreak also occurred. The crowd tried to break into the port of Mytilene. This was reported by the Open TV channel.

Hundreds of people made homeless after a fire in the camp are seen to have tried to reach the port. They rushed to the port, because they learned that a ship would arrive in Mytilene, in which they could reach the Balkan Peninsula.

The gas was used when migrants began throwing stones at law enforcement officers. In response to the use of the gas, the migrants set the grass on fire, causing olive trees to burn.

More police are expected to arrive on Thursday. There will also be a passenger ferry and two Greek Navy landing ships, which will host some two thousand refugees.

As reported, on the night of September 9, a large-scale fire broke out in the Moriah camp, where some 13,000 migrants lived. The cause of the fire is still unknown. Additional police have been dispatched to the island to thwart immigrants fleeing to the city of Mytilene.

Earlier it was learned that a bus with tourists caught fire in Bulgaria. The bus was burned to the ground, but people were not injured.

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