And still the boats keep coming: Authorities on Greek Lesbos struggling to cope with the 4,000 migrants arriving EVERY DAY
- Nearly half the migrants reaching Greece in small boats from Turkey arrive on the island of Lesbos
- Authorities are struggling to cope with the 4,000 people who arrive each days after making the crossing
- A football stadium has been turned into a screening centre and more police and finger print equipment drafted in
- Around 17,000 have now been screened and boarded ferries to the mainland, but aid workers fear more are coming
It may have been compared to a warzone by its residents, but that has not slowed the boat loads of migrants arriving on the Greek island of Lesbos.
Authorities are struggling to cope with the 4,000 refugees arriving each day after making the perilous crossing to the holiday island.
Nearly half the migrants reaching Greece in small boats from Turkey arrive on Lesbos, and sleep rough there until they can be registered.
Around 4,000 migrants each days pack into rubber boats to make the perilous journey from Turkey to the Greek island of Lesbos
Relief: This Afghan man says a pray to his God after surviving the treacherous journey in a boat crammed full of migrants
We've made it: A man and woman share a loving kiss as they safely complete the first leg of their journey to western Europe
Injured: A boy cradles his injured brother in his arm as they arrive in mainland Greece from the island of Lesbos
Authorities were forced to enlist a football stadium as a screening centre, as around 20,000 people were left waiting in squalid conditions to be processed before they could be ferried to the mainland.
More police staff and fingerprinting equipment was also drafted in to accelerate the process.
'It was horrible the last three days... There are no rooms, no hotels, no bathrooms, no beds, no anything,' said Hussam Hamzat, a 27-year-old engineer from Damascus who finally got his departure papers after an overnight wait.
Authorities say they have now screened more than 17,000 refugees and migrants, and most have boarded ferries for mainland Greece.
'People are still coming at the same flow, so really this is just removing the huge bottleneck,' said Lani Fortier of the International Rescue Committee.
The human cost of the tragedy was highlighted as an Iraqi family caught up in the boat accident that claimed the life of Aylan Kurdi buried their two children who drowned along with the Syrian toddler on their way to Greece.
'Everyone was talking about this route, so we decided that we would leave, to provide them with a better life,' said Zainab Abbas, the mother of eight-year-old boy Haidar and 12-year-old girl Zainab, who died in the accident off the coast of Turkey.
More than 380,000 people have arrived in Europe by sea this year, figures from the UN's refugee agency UNHCR showed, including close to 260,000 in Greece and 121,000 in Italy.
Some 85 percent of those coming to Europe are refugees because they have fled war in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, the agency says.
As Australia agreed to up its quota, offers of help also came in from south America, with Venezuela saying it would accept 20,000, Brazil declaring migrants would be welcomed with 'open arms' and Chile also pledging to take 'a large number'.
Canada's Quebec province has also said it will take 3,650 this year and Washington has said it is examining how it could provide more help.
Juncker's proposals also include a permanent relocation system, and possible revision of the EU's Dublin Treaty, under which asylum claims must be processed by the first country that refugees arrive in.
Exhausted: This woman is assisted by fellow migrants as she collapses on the pebbled shore after safely making the journey from Turkey
A spent Afghan woman, wearing a life jacket, was dragged to the shore after the journey left her too tired to walk to safety
Back on dry land: This Syrian father can finally fed his hungry daughter with a bottle of milk after they survived the crossing
This man hauls his son, wearing what appears to be an inflatable life jacket, from the raft to the safety of dry land
Worn out: Wrapped in a foil insulation blanket this young Syrian boy is finally able to close his eyes after making it in one piece to Lesbos
An Afghan little girls cries as she is helped onto dry land, as another refugee collapse with exhaustion alongside her
Another man braved the perilous journey with his young son. He was finally able to feed the small child milk after making it to the island
He also unveiled a list of 'safe countries' including Turkey and the Balkan states that migrants would generally have to return to, plus a 1.8 billion-euro ($2.0 billion) fund to help poor sub-Saharan countries, the source of many migrants.
Elsewhere, migrants broke through police lines in Hungary near the Serbian border for a third day running, as the army began mobilising for a possible role in guarding the frontier.
The break-out involving at least 400 migrants took place near the flashpoint town of Roszke, where migrants have to wait at a collection point before being taken to a nearby centre for registration.
Today Danish police ordered the suspension of all rail services to and from Germany as hundreds of migrants refused to disembark from trains arriving from Denmark's southern neighbour, demanding to be let continue onto Sweden instead.
A football stadium in Lesbos has been transformed into a screening centre as they struggle to deal with the daily arrivals
Figures from the UN'S refugee agency reveal that more than 380,000 people have arrived in Europe by sea this year
As he sits with a thermal blanket wrapped around his shoulders, this desperate migrant has made it to the Greek island of Lesbos
After days living in poor conditions on the Greeks island of Lesbos this boy and his family have finally made it to Athens
Two trains carrying around 350 refugees spent the day stuck in Rodby, on Scandinavia's busiest ferry crossing to Germany, around 135 kilometres southeast of Copenhagen.
The refugees refused to register with Danish authorities, which would mean having to apply for asylum in Denmark or returning to Germany, whereas they want to seek asylum in Sweden.
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