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Migrants Βlock Greek Highway to Protest Conditions in Camp

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — About 200 refugees and migrants have blocked a section of a highway near the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki to protest conditions in their camp.

The protest, which lasted about an hour Saturday evening and ended when riot police appeared, began after tents in the camp were flooded by a flash flood that hit the city.

The camp, on the site of a former army barracks, houses refugees and other migrants in sturdy containers, but tents had been hastily erected to accommodate a rising flow of refugees and migrants entering Greece from neighboring Turkey this spring. The flow has exacerbated already overcrowded conditions in many refugee camps.

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