In news from Greece, Doctors Without Borders says as many as 1,000 refugees have been locked in a stadium on a Greek island overnight without access to food and with very little water. Riot police were deployed across the island of Kos on Tuesday to round up the refugees and force them into the stadium. The migrants are mostly from Syria and Iraq. A Doctors Without Borders spokesperson described the scene.
Doctors Without Borders coordinator Vangelis Orfanoudakis: “Until today, one day after, still there is no food there, only local solidarity groups giving biscuits and milk for the babies. It is Médecins Sans Frontières who are doing medical assistance inside, and we are also mostly treating patients that have fainted because of the horrible situation that’s inside there. There is a lot of tension, a lot of waiting and a lot of misunderstanding of why the people are there. And nobody knows why they are there, how long it’s going to take or when it’s going to finish.”