Migrants hurt, tents torched in Greek island brawl

2 June 2016, 1:55 pm

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MYTILENE, Greece – Over a dozen migrants are hurt Thursday in a brawl in the main detention camp on the Greek island of Lesbos that also sees nearly 30 tents torched, an AFP correspondent says.

Hundreds of people — mainly families with children — are evacuated from the camp during the night as rival groups of Afghans and Pakistanis go at each other with clubs and stones.

Three of the injured — two Pakistanis and an Afghan — are hospitalized, two of them with head injuries.

Migrants gather during overnight clashes at the Moria detention camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece, early on June 2, 2016. (STR/AFP)

There are nearly 3,000 people in the Moria camp ahead of the clash, most of them asylum applicants trying to avoid deportation to Turkey under an EU deal that went into effect in March.

— AFP