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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Greek ship ferries hundreds more migrants to mainland

A ship bringing about 1,800 migrants and refugees from an eastern Greek island to the port of Piraeus arrived on Tuesday night, the Greek coastguard said. Greece has seen a spike in the number of refugees and migrants arriving on the islands by rubber dinghies via nearby Turkey this summer, with aid agencies estimating about 2,000 crossing over daily last month. "You have to help us," said 27-year-old Isham, a Syrian teacher who left his wife and two children behind in Turkey.


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