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The refugee camp on Samos is as overcrowded as the Moria camp on Lesbos
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Less than two weeks after the Moria refugee camp was destroyed by several fires, a fire broke out in a reception center for refugees on the Greek island of Samos.
The flames have already been brought under control, the police and fire department announced on Sunday.
Accordingly, two or three residential containers were destroyed, there were no injuries.
"There is no risk that the fire will spread," said a fire department spokeswoman for the AFP news agency.
Eleven days ago, the Moria refugee camp was destroyed by several fires.
According to the authorities, this left 12,700 people homeless.
By the weekend, around 9,000 of them were housed in a makeshift tent city on Lesbos.
Like the Moria camp, the facility on Samos was built during the refugee crisis in 2015.
This camp is also completely overcrowded - instead of the planned 650, almost 6000 migrants live there.
The hygienic conditions are therefore poor, and there are always violent conflicts and fires in the camp on Samos.
The tensions are further fueled by the fact that unlike the rest of the country, the refugee camps in Greece are still subject to a curfew due to the corona pandemic.
According to official levies, 21 infections with the novel corona virus have so far been detected in the refugees on Samos.
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