UN worried about migrants dying of cold, ‘dire’ situation in Greece

  13 January 2017    Read: 1460
UN worried about migrants dying of cold, ‘dire’ situation in Greece
Refugees and migrants are dying in Europe’s sudden cold snap, and governments must do more to help them rather than pushing them back from borders and subjecting them to violence and confiscations, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Friday.
“It’s about saving lives, not about red tape and keeping to bureaucratic arrangements,” Sarah Crowe, a spokeswoman for the UN children’s agency UNICEF told a UN briefing in Geneva.

“The dire situation now is Greece.” UNHCR spokeswoman Cecile Pouilly detailed five deaths so far from the cold and said about 1,000 people were in unheated tents and dormitories in Greece, calling for them to be transferred to better shelter on the mainland.

/Reuters/

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