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Turkey says 12 migrants pushed back by Greece die at border

Stripped off from their clothes and shoes have frozen to death

02 February, 13:17
(ANSA-AFP) - ISTANBUL, FEB 2 - Turkey's interior minister said on Wednesday that 12 migrants froze to death after being stripped of their clothes by Greek border guards at their land border. "Twelve of the 22 migrants pushed back by Greek border units, stripped off from their clothes and shoes have frozen to death," Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in a tweet showing blurred photographs of bodies lying by the side of a road.

(ANSA-AFP).

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