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Greek police fire teargas at migrants on Lesbos island

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Migrants from the Moria camp protest near Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, on Saturday.

Greek police fired teargas to disperse a group of migrants protesting on the island of Lesbos on Saturday, four days after fires burnt the overflowing Moria refugee camp to the ground.

Migrants_Lesbos-1Migrants from the Moria camp look at a fire that broke out during a protest near Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos, on Saturday.

The tension broke out as hundreds of migrants chanting "Freedom" marched on a road that leads into the port of Mytilene, which police had blocked as a new temporary tent settlement was being set up nearby.

Reuters

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