Hundreds relocating after blaze in Moria camp left 12,000 people without shelter
Police have begun moving hundreds of people stranded on the island of Lesbos into a new temporary tent camp, more than a week after a fire razed Greece’s biggest migrant camp where they had been staying.“The operation began with many officers in white body suits. Things are calm and migrants are slowly streaming into the new camp,” a witness said.
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