Greek government have showed {that a} five-year-old has died after she used to be found out trapped on an islet with a gaggle of migrants.
A complete of 38 other people have been situated via Greek police within the border river of Evros on Monday night.
Athens says they have been situated in a ship “outside Greek territory” round 4 kilometres clear of the islet, which is referred to as Meriç in Turkish.
The United Nations says that the team — 35 Syrian nationals and 3 Palestinians — were stranded for a number of days within the limited army zone.
The Greek Minister of Migration has accused Turkey of forcing the migrants to go the border “under the threat of violence”.
“They forced them to head for Greece and the European Union,” Notis Mitarachi in a commentary on Tuesday after visiting the scene.
He added that Greek government are running with the International Committee of the Red Cross (IRC) to search out the frame of the five-year-old woman “so that she can be buried with dignity by her family”. NGOs say she died after being stung via a scorpion.
A pregnant lady used to be additionally discovered some of the team of migrants and has been hospitalised. On Saturday, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had known as for “urgent measures” to save lots of them.
Greece to begin with mentioned they’d performed “multiple searches” and mentioned that Ankara used to be liable for discovering the stranded migrants of their territory.
The head of the Greek Council for Refugees has claimed that the migrants feared bodily abuse in the event that they re-entered Greece.
Athens has been many times accused of illegally pushing again asylum-seekers to Turkey on its land and sea border within the Aegean. Greece has all the time denied those accusations.
“This latest situation at the Evros border highlights the brutality of pushbacks, which we know are taking place at borders across Europe,” mentioned Dimitra Kalogeropoulou, IRC Greece Director.