Right-wing rioters have protested in front of a new asylum shelter in the eastern German town of Bischofswerda, throwing a bottle at a bus arriving with refugees and shouting racist slurs at them. The German news agency dpa reported Saturday that around 100 rioters tried to block the road to the asylum shelter and that police had to protect the refugees from them as they entered the building late Friday. Last month, dozens of police were injured when more than a hundred right-wing extremists attacked a refugee home in Heidenau, south of Dresden. After the riots, German Chancellor visited the shelter and met with refugees, officials and volunteers. A Greek coast guard spokesman says a 5-year-old girl who was retrieved unconscious from the sea off the Greek island of Lesbos has died in hospital. The migrants and refugees want to transit Croatia in hopes of seeking asylum in more wealthy Western European nations, such as Germany. Thousands of migrants, many lacking food and water, remain trapped in southeast Europe after countries began putting up barriers that have blocked their passage to Western Europe.
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