1 child dead at refugee camp on Greece's Lesbos Island

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ATHENS (AA) – A 6-year-old child on Monday died in an ongoing fire at a refugee camp on the Aegean island of Lesbos under unknown circumstance.

The child, whose gender was not identified, was found at the Moria Reception and Identification Center on the island – which is near the Turkish coast and is known as Midilli in Turkish – the local fire department said in a tweet. There were 13 firefighters and five firefighting vehicles in the area, it added.

Firefighters were having trouble controlling the fire due to the strong winds blowing on the island, local media

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