2,500 refugees, mainly from Syria, land in Greece

AlQa'dah 16, 1436, August 31, 2015, SPA -- Some 2,500 refugees, most of them from Syria,
disembarked in mainland Greece on Monday from the eastern Aegean
islands.
Another vessel brought 1,745 refugees on Sunday night, a coast guard
officer told dpa in Athens.
The refugees, mostly Syrians, were brought from the Aegean islands of
Leros, Kos, Lesbos, Kalymnos, Samos and Agathonisi, not far from the
Turkish coast.
The vessels docked at the main port of Piraeus, near Athens.