Fighting erupts at Cyprus migrant camp; 2 hurt, tents ablaze - ABC News

NICOSIA, Cyprus -- Fighting broke retired Friday betwixt 2 groups astatine a migrant campy successful Cyprus, a melee that near 2 radical injured, acceptable 20 tents ablaze and forced scores of families to fly the facility, officials said.

Riot constabulary had to usage teardrop state to reconstruct bid successful the Pournara migrant reception halfway but nary arrests were made, according to a constabulary spokesperson who spoke connected customary information of anonymity.

The warring began conscionable earlier noon Friday betwixt groups of migrants from Congo and Nigeria pursuing a quality implicit a mobile telephone charging cable, said an authoritative who spoke connected information of anonymity due to the fact that helium wasn’t authorized to talk publicly.

The groups hurled rocks and equipped themselves with sticks and metallic rods. Many fled the country arsenic constabulary arrived. The 2 individuals who were wounded were taken to the infirmary for treatment.

The authoritative said the families person returned to the campy aft calm was restored.

Tensions person occasionally boiled implicit into unit astatine the overcrowded Pournara camp, which present holds 2,150 migrants but was built for a maximum capableness of 1,000.

Cyprus’ constabulary main Stylianos Papatheodorou attributed the unit to the camp’s overcrowded conditions and said constabulary person stepped up measures to defender against specified incidents.

Cyprus has been seeing a ample fig of migrant arrivals.

Cypriot Interior Ministry figures amusement that of the 27,000 migrants who reached ethnically divided Cyprus successful the past 2 years, 6% arrived by vessel portion 94% crossed a U.N.-controlled buffer portion from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north.

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