Two migrant teens attacked in northern Greece, NGO reports

A nongovernmental organization that helps run accommodation programs for young unaccompanied migrants on Friday said that two of its wards in northern Greece were viciously attacked earlier this week.

According to the announcement, the two teenagers were returning to the Arsis shelter in the small town of Oraiokastro on the outskirts of Thessaloniki when they were ambushed by a group of eight to 10 men who had their faces covered and demanded to know where the boys were from. The men attacked the boys when they replied that they were from Pakistan.

One of the two teenagers managed to run off, but the other was reportedly beaten badly with a bat and had to be taken to hospital where he received several stitches.

The unnamed boy is currently recuperating back at the shelter, though its coordinator for Arsis, Iris Pandiri, told media on Friday that the teenager...