Two migrants, including a child, were hospitalized with respiratory problems on Wednesday after a fire at a migrant camp near Athens, authorities and media said.
The fire at Eleonas camp, near central Athens, home to more than 1,100 people, including many families with young children, broke out early Wednesday June 15 and was largely contained by mid- daytime.
Two people were hospitalized with respiratory problems, according to a source from the Ministry of Migration.
State television ERT said one of them was a 12-year-old child.
No information was immediately available on the causes of the fire.
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Firefighters said the fire started inside the camp and then spread to nearby warehouses.
He burned a few living containers in the camp, according to the Migration Ministry.
Fires often break out in migrant camps in Greece, either by accident or deliberately, according to authorities.
The Moria camp on the island of Lesbos, then the largest in Europe, was completely ravaged by fire in 2020, and a group of young Afghans were sentenced to prison terms for their involvement in the disaster .
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