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The Eastern Aegean is becoming Europe’s Nauru
By Fotini Rantsiou
On leave from the UN’s emergency aid coordination agency, OCHA, Rantsiou advises and reports on the refugee crisis in her native Greece. She is based on Lesvos.
A 66-year-old Iraqi Kurdish woman and her six-year old grandson were burnt to death on Thursday night when a cooking gas canister exploded in their tent at Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesvos. The boy’s mother and his four-year-old brother, who were in the next tent, suffered severe burns. The fire was quickly put out, but as the camp was evacuated, some of the refugees started fires in their wake that caused widespread destruction.
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