{"id":44430,"date":"2019-10-01T09:31:20","date_gmt":"2019-10-01T01:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44430"},"modified":"2019-10-01T09:31:22","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T01:31:22","slug":"riots-at-greek-migrant-camp-after-killer-blaze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=44430","title":{"rendered":"Riots at Greek migrant camp after killer blaze"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Migrants-stand-next-to-a-burning-container-during-a-fire-in-Moria-camp-on-the-island-of-Lesbos.jpg\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.bssnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Migrants-stand-next-to-a-burning-container-during-a-fire-in-Moria-camp-on-the-island-of-Lesbos-696x392.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MORIA (Greece), Oct 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least two migrants died on<br>Sunday in a fire at a Greek island refugee camp, with the blaze triggering<br>rioting by angry residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Athens News Agency, quoting police sources, reported that a woman and a<br>child had died in the blaze at the overcrowded Moria camp on the island of<br>Lesbos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The body of the woman was taken to the island\u2019s general hospital while the<br>body of the child was handed over to authorities by migrants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire inside the camp was extinguished by plane. But police later fired<br>tear gas to control an angry crowd who said authorities took too long to<br>respond to the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, police said the riots occurred after two separate fires<br>broke out, firstly outside and then inside Moria camp with a time gap of<br>twenty minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional officers were sent from Athens in C-130 army planes in a bid to<br>contain the situation, although local police sources said calm had returned<br>to the camp by 2300 GMT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moria camp hosts around 13,000 people but has facilities for just 3,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It has become like a small town with UN refugee agency tents for around<br>8,000 people sprawling into the olive fields of nearby Moria village. Others<br>are housed in containers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Greece is hosting some 70,000 mostly Syrian refugees and migrants who have fled their countries since 2015, and crossed over from neighbouring Turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Greek government said on Sunday it planned to discuss a new asylum<br>draft law to deal with the fresh migrant crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the cabinet meeting on Monday, we are going to discuss a draft law<br>proposed by the Citizen\u2019s Protection Ministry which will update, in<br>accordance with European standards, the asylum procedure\u201d, Minister of State, George Gerapetritis said in an interview with Skai Tv on Sunday. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MORIA (Greece), Oct 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; At least two migrants died onSunday in a fire at a Greek island refugee camp, with the blaze triggeringrioting by angry residents. Athens News Agency, quoting police sources, reported that a woman and achild had died in the blaze at the overcrowded Moria camp on the island ofLesbos. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}