Thousands of asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos spent a third night in the open after the country's largest camp burned down.
Thousands of asylum seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos spent a third night in the open after the country's largest camp burned down, as France, Germany and the Netherlands offered to take in hundreds of them, especially children.
Germany and France on Thursday agreed on an initiative for EU states to share out some 400 minors from the camp, a source close to the talks told AFP. The fire late on Tuesday at Moria camp, Greece's main migrant facility, sent thousands fleeing for safety into surrounding olive groves. The minors in the Moria camp have been flown off Lesbos island and rehoused in"safe" facilities in northern Greece, Athens said, adding that all had been tested for the virus.
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