Boy dies in fire at Greek migrant camp
A boy has died in a fire at the Thiva camp for asylum seekers north of Athens. He was seven or eight years old and reportedly from a Kurdish family.
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Belgian police officer gets one-year suspended sentence over the shooting of migrant toddler
A Belgian court handed a one-year suspended sentence to a police officer over the fatal shooting of a two-year-old migrant girl. The officer shot at a van carrying migrants during a car chase, resulting in the toddler’s death.
Bosnia: Migrant volunteer in Bihac shares harrowing experiences
Local volunteer Zlatan Kovacevic says that the situation in Bosnia is slowly going from bad to worse, as helpers begin to encounter corpses and growing violence against migrants. Children are particularly at risk, according to Save the Children.
Germany: Afghan dies in asylum center fire
A 27-year-old man has died in a fire in an asylum seeker center in the northern German city of Hamburg. Police said the man was of Afghan origin.
Shipwreck off Libya: One of the victims was known to InfoMigrants
InfoMigrants has learnt that one of the victims in Tuesday's shipwreck off Libya had been in contact with us back in March. At least 43 people died in the accident. Souleymane came from Guinea and had been in Libya for the last three years. This was his fourth attempt to cross the Mediterranean.
Kurdish community in Iraq says suicides on the rise
The Kurdish community in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region says that the numbers of suicides are increasing, particularly in refugee camps full of Kurdish Yazidis.
Stowaways: 'The man who fell from the sky' - and the one who survived
In 2015, it was reported that a man fell from a plane into the streets of West London. The man, Carlito Vale, died as he hit the ground. But with him was another man, who survived. Documentary filmmaker Rich Bentley has made it "his mission" to find out more.
'No more human warehouses', urges Athens regional official
The mayor of the Oropos municipality where the Malakasa refugee and migrant camp is located -- 40 kilometers from Athens -- has appealed to the Greek government to stop "human warehouses" following the tragic death of a young child at the camp.
Migrants: Palermo archbishop calls for end to pushbacks
The archbishop of Palermo has launched an appeal for a change in European migration policy. He called for an end to pushbacks of migrants such as those by Libyan coast guards in the Mediterranean.
Four migrants found dead on arrival in Canary Islands
Four migrants were found dead on arrival when a boat carrying 47 migrants landed in Tenerife at dawn, Spanish coast guards said Tuesday. Three others were hospitalized with burns and other injuries.
Two men guilty in deaths of Vietnamese lorry migrants
The pair were part of a gang of human traffickers who offered a "VIP" service to smuggle migrants into the UK. Prosecutors labelled them as "unscrupulous" and "greedy."
Fourth body found after warehouse fire near Barcelona
Rescuers have found a fourth body in the ruins of a burnt-out warehouse near Barcelona, where up to 200 mostly African migrants were living in precarious conditions. The fire that destroyed the building, which broke out last Wednesday, also injured 20 people.