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		</div><p>Migrants protesting at an overcrowded camp on the Greek island of Lesbos have set fires and clashed with police, authorities said.</p>
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<p>Police and local authorities said there were unconfirmed reports of two fatalities at the Moria camp. The protesters were demanding to be transferred to the Greek mainland.</p>
<p>“The situation is tense,” Lesbos mayor Stratis Kytelis told the Associated Press. “There is information about a dead mother and her child. We haven’t been able to confirm that yet.”</p>
<p>UNHCR Greece later tweeted: “We learned with deep sadness that the lives of a woman and a child were lost in a fire on (Lesbos) today.”</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">We have learned with deep sadness that the lives of a woman and a child were lost in a fire on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Lesvos?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Lesvos</a> today. We are ready to support those affected and authorities by all means possible. <a href="https://t.co/gPDjyLi0fm">pic.twitter.com/gPDjyLi0fm</a></p>
<p>&mdash; UNHCR Greece (@UNHCRGreece) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNHCRGreece/status/1178348787368103936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2019</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>Greek police spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Theodoros Chronopoulos said the migrants set a fire at an olive grove outside the camp and, minutes later, inside the camp.</p>
<p>Mr Kytelis said both fires were later extinguished, but he was not yet able to enter the camp to assess the damage or confirm the deaths.</p>
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<p>Police said deputy citizen protection minister Lefteris Oikonomou, a former chief of the Greek police, was going to Lesbos.</p>
<p>About 12,000 migrants, most of them Afghans, are housed in a space designed for 3,000.</p>
<p>Separately, Greek police said a speeding car carrying 12 Afghan migrants ran through a red light and crashed into a vehicle coming from a side street, killing its driver, a 64-year-old Greek man.</p>
<p>Police said one migrant was seriously injured and three were slightly injured in the crash on Sunday morning on a road between Kavala and Thessaloniki in northern Greece.</p>
<p>Some of the migrants were found in the car’s boot.</p>
<p>The driver of the car with the migrants has been arrested. Police said he is a 25-year-old Moldovan trafficker who was taking migrants towards Thessaloniki, 14 miles to the west.</p>
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<p>A police spokesman said the trafficker’s car was not being pursued, but other officials said it might have been monitored by authorities in an unmarked vehicle.</p>
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