Two reported dead in Moria migrant camp fire
A woman and a child were reportedly killed in a fire at the identification and reception center of Moria on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Sunday, the state-run Athens-Macedonian News Agency has said.
According to the ANA-MPA, the burnt body of a woman was taken to the island's general hospital for identification on Sunday night, while police were trying to reach a burnt housing container to retrieve the second body, reportedly belonging to a child.
"We learned with deep sadness that the lives of a woman and a child were lost in a fire on Lesvos today," the Greek branch of the UNHCR refugee agency, which is active on Lesvos, tweeted on Sunday.
The fire inside the camp started shortly after 5 p.m., about 20 minutes after another blaze was set off in an olive grove just outside the facility where hundreds of asylum seekers who cannot be accommodated...
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