Athens: The second fire in the highly crowded Moriah Refugee Camp in Greece destroyed almost everything that survived the first fire. The Greek Ministry of Migration said this on Thursday. Thousands of people need immediate housing after this incident.
Early in the morning, former residents of the country’s largest camp were seen returning to the area to collect burnt remains of their belongings and see what they could save. Many of them spent the night sleeping in the open on the side of the road. Small fires started spreading in the remains of tobacco planted outside the camp due to a very strong wind on Thursday morning.
Officials said the real fire at the camp on the island of Lesbos was deliberately set on Tuesday by residents who were enraged by segregated habitat regulations to prevent the Covid-19 outbreak after 35 people were infected. The fire rendered about 3,500 people homeless out of the more than 12,000 people living in and around Moria, and officials have set up tents as temporary emergency accommodation and made two naval ships and a ferry also available to live in. is. More than 400 lonely children and teenagers were brought to the mainland late Wednesday to be placed in other centers.
On Wednesday evening, a new fire in the unburned parts of the camp damaged the remaining large part of the camp and thousands of people had to leave. Aid agencies long ago warned of serious conditions in Moria. It is a center that was built to accommodate just 2,750 people.
