Migrants moved onto cruise ship

The crowds, including many infants, waited with little food and water under a scorching Sunday.

“They’re just normal people just like you and I, trying to make their way in the world”, he said.

Reports said that the cause of the capsize was unclear but migrants who spoke to the AFP photographer said it was due to overloading. She hopes to reach Germany or Sweden.

The ship will temporarily shelter up to 2,500 people.

Though many aid organisations are volunteering to provide shelter for the migrants, Kos is experiencing the kind of flare-ups among migrants, authorities and residents that have already been seen in Lampedusa and other Italian islands that have borne the brunt of migrant arrivals.

The UN refugee agency’s division for Europe said last week that 124,000 refugees and migrants had landed in Greece since the beginning of the year.

“The speed of arrivals happen to until the end of time gaining the past month”.

On Tuesday 11 August, local police used fire extinguishers and batons against migrants after violence broke out in a sports stadium where hundreds of people, including young children, were waiting for immigration papers.

Around 50 asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran threw rocks and exchanged blows outside the mainpolicestation on Kos, as another boat was preparing to take a load of Syrian migrants to the mainland. We see people with medical problems because of the situation.

“There is no infrastructure to manage their applications and paperwork, the police stations are understaffed, and there was no efficient plan on how to move the refugees”, he said.

Unlike Syrians, Iraqis are being registered in Greece as “immigrants, not refugees”, according to Maj.

Mrs Miller added: “I saw a picture of a child that had such bad sunburn he looked like he was a burns victim”.

“Our understanding is that more support to Greece is on the way”.

He recounts his perilous night-time journey with a group of friends to Kos across the narrow stretch of water from Turkey.

After two hours, the scene seemed calmer at the gates of the seaport Kos.

Police struggled to regulate the gang, whereas protesting migrants started blocking native roads.

But Monday morning’s dinghy-load brought the latest batch of migrants to wash up on the Greek island of Kos after crossing from nearby Turkey. Mohannad, a dental technician from the Rif Dimashq area of Syria, who only gave his first name, had camped out at the port with his wife and two baby sons. The people said they… “Tourists are afraid to come to this side at night”.

TURKEY: Six migrants drowned off Turkey’s coast while trying to reach islands in Greece.

Daniel Esdras, who heads the worldwide Organization for Migration’s office in Greece said, “Having so many people in a small island, things are bound to get tough”. They sometimes appear well-drilled, with a clear choice of a person to sit at the back steering using the outboard motor.