Cardboard box

A suffocating situation prevails in the center of Rhodes, with areas like Eleftherias Square and Therma having turned into makeshift migrant camps.

The images available to protothema.gr reveal the chaos, with people living in cardboard boxes and makeshift tents, enduring horrendous living conditions.

Romanian companies in the packaging and packaging solutions industry present their products, along with the largest players in the packaging market in Europe, in front of an estimated 45,000 visitors of the FachPack trade fair in Germany, that is being held 24-26 September, according to a release of the Ministry for Business Milieu, Trade and Entrepreneurship sent to AGERPRES on Tuesday.

A 5-year-old Afghan boy was accidentally run over by a truck near the migrant and refugee camp of Moria on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Tuesday.

According to preliminary reports from state broadcaster ERT, the boy was inside a cardboard box that the truck driver ran over while turning into the parking lot of a business where he was making a delivery.

More than 200 cardboard boxes containing counterfeit goods were found in a warehouse in Aspropyrgos, western Attica and confiscated by financial crime squad (SDOE) officers Thursday, authorities said.

Most of the products seized were imitation big-brand sunglasses and sports shoes, authorities said.

Cardboard boxes abandoned in front of a bank have been found in the center of Ruse, Bulgaria's sixth-biggest city, triggering alarm among residents, private NOVA TV broadcaster informs.

Police and fire brigade teams have arrived at the site, cordoning off the area.

Residents of a nearby apartment block have been evacuated.