Crowded Greek refugee camp suffers deadly blaze

A deadly fire broke out in a crowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on Sunday (September 29) killing at least one person.

As firefighters battled the flames, refugees clashed with police who deployed tear gas and sent reinforcements to the camp in a bid to restore order.

The blaze erupted at a container inside the Moria camp, where 12,000 people live in overcrowded conditions.

Police said the charred remains of a woman were taken to the island's capital for identification, and that they were not immediately able to reach an area of containers where there were unconfirmed reports of another burned body.

Lesbos is one of the closest Greek islands to Turkey, from which Greece has seen a resurgence in migrant flows in recent weeks.

More than 9,000 people arrived in August - the highest number in the three years since the European Union and Ankara implemented a deal to shut off the Aegean migrant route.

The migrant camp on Lesbos is the country's biggest and running at almost four times its capacity.

The Greek government said on Monday (September 30) it would step up the transfer of asylum seekers from its islands to the mainland, with at least 3,000 being transferred by the end of October.