Death of Syrian woman in accident in Greece sparks unruly protests

Solun, 17 October 2016 (MIA) - Disturbances occurred at a refugee camp near the northern Greek town of Oraiokastro, after a Syrian woman was killed in a traffic accident and her 10 year old son was injured.

The refugees say that police were in coming to the scene of the accident, and later refused to take the woman and her boy to hospital. They blocked the road outside of the camp, pelted police cars with rocks and torched two of them. Police responded with tear gas.

Greece houses about 60.000 refugees and migrants, most of them from Syria and Iraq. They are distributed between camps near Athens, on the Aegean islands where they arrived crossing over from Turkey and camps in the north formed after Macedonia closed the border for irregular entries.