المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights


A Syrian refugee wearing a life jacket and armbands reacts moments after arriving on a dinghy on the Greek island of Lesbos, September 7, 2015. Greece is struggling to cope with the hundreds of migrants and refugees from the war in Syria making the short crossing every day from Turkey to Greece's eastern islands, including Kos, Lesbos, Samos and Agathonisi. REUTERS/Dimitris Michalakis

30,000 refugees now on Greek islands, U.N. says

The United Nations said Tuesday there are currently some 30,000 refugees and migrants amassed on the Greek islands, with 20,000 of them on the island of Lesbos alone.

“It seems that over the weekend the numbers (of arrivals in Greece) surged and then died down,” Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency said, pointing out that there were “30,000 refugees on the Greek islands right now.”

 

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