Fresh Clashes Erupt at Crowded Crete Migrant Camp as Transfers Begin

Fresh clashes broke retired Wednesday nighttime among migrants astatine an overcrowded reception tract successful Agia, Crete, adjacent arsenic authorities began an exigency cognition to transportation hundreds of radical to the mainland.

The unrest, which progressive scuffles and immoderate injuries, was the 2nd specified incidental successful 24 hours astatine the strained facility. 

A ample constabulary and seashore defender unit was deployed to reconstruct order.

Amid the tensions, the archetypal radical of astir 200 Sudanese migrants was transported from Agia to the larboard of Souda connected Wednesday evening to committee a ferry for mainland facilities. 

The departure was met with cheers and applause from the hundreds of migrants remaining astatine the site.

Authorities program to transportation different 200 radical connected Thursday arsenic they enactment to alleviate the unsafe overcrowding, which follows a caller surge successful migrant arrivals to the land from Libya.