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Evros residents denounce visiting migration minister

Residents of Orestiada in the Evros border region in northwestern Greece greeted visiting Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis on Monday with a hail of stones, firecrackers, eggs and plastic cups of coffee to express their opposition to government plans to increase the capacities of the local reception and identification center for asylum seekers and the pre-departure detention facility.

Survivor - Κάτια Ταραμπανκό: Τι τρέχει με την υγεία της και πότε θα επιστρέψει στο ριάλιτι

Η παίκτρια μεταφέρθηκε σε κλινική στον Άγιο Δομίνικο

Migrant, refugee arrivals spike in Evros

Despite plummeting temperatures, arrivals of migrants from Turkey through the Evros border region in northeastern Greece are at a high level for the time of the year, as smugglers are reportedly constantly finding new entry routes.

Some 870 migrants were arrested for illegally entering the country in December 2018. The number of arrests in December 2017 was 502.

Eighteen people in hospital from latest migrant van crash

Greek authorities say 18 people were hospitalized after the latest in a string of often fatal road accidents involving vehicles smuggling migrants through northern Greece.

Police say a van driven by a suspected migrant smuggler and crammed with another 46 people veered off a road and crashed near the northeastern town of Didymoteicho overnight Wednesday.

Ten migrants injured in Evros van crash

A van carrying 20 undocumented migrants crashed on Wednesday during an attempt by their suspected smuggler to evade arrest near the border town of Soufli in Evros.

According to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, the driver lost control of the vehicle after trying to do a U-turn to avoid a police inspection and plunged into a ditch.

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