Moria

A 5-year-old Afghan boy was accidentally run over by a truck near the migrant and refugee camp of Moria on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Tuesday.

According to preliminary reports from state broadcaster ERT, the boy was inside a cardboard box that the truck driver ran over while turning into the parking lot of a business where he was making a delivery.

Pope Francis has offered 100,000 euros to the Greek branch of the Catholic humanitarian organisation Caritas to support its work with refugees and migrants on the islands.
The amount was delivered to Caritas Hellas by the Papal Αlmoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, who visited the state reception facility for migrants near the village of Moria in Lesvos.

A delegation of cardinals from the Vatican arrived on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Wednesday to visit the state reception facility for migrants near the village of Moria.

Employees of the asylum service on Lesvos have rung the alarm bell over conditions on the eastern Aegean island as official figures show that more than 11,000 migrants are currently residing at local facilities, more than twice the maximum capacity.

The arrival on the island of 615 migrants in the past three days pushed the total number of asylum seekers on Lesvos to 11,053.

A Syrian asylum seeker was hospitalized on Tuesday after being shot in the head and legs by a farmer on the island of Lesvos.

Police said the perpetrator, a resident of the village of Moria, shot the 16-year-old in the presence of his brother and parents for unknown reasons at a farm north of the reception and identification center named after the village.

Police investigating the murder of an Afghan man on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos said on Tuesday that the victim was known for exploiting fellow Afghans by "renting" them out to local farmers.

Migrants are seen at the reception facility near the village of Moria on Lesvos on Friday. Tensions are rising at the facility, which was designed to accommodate 2,000 people but is hosting around 5,500. This escalated into violence earlier in the week but police did not intervene with tear gas as they have done in the past due to the presence of more than 1,000 children at the camp.

Coast guard officers on Lesvos detained a municipal employee and his partner Thursday in connection with allegations that they have been selling drugs to migrants living in the island's main refugee camp near the village of Moria.

According to sources, authorities found around 300 grams of cannabis in the couple's possession.

In comments following a large fire possibly started during a riot at a migrant processing center on the island of Lesvos on Monday night, the regional governor for the Northern Aegean, Christiana Kalogirou, warned of an 'unmanageable situation' on the islands bearing the brunt of the refugee crisis.

Tents and prefabricated homes went up in smoke at a refugee and migrant processing center on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Monday night, leaving hundreds without shelter.