Spain welcomes another 52 Iraqi and Syrian refugees, including 37 children and seven women
Thursday, September 29, 2016 @ 12:38 PM
ANOTHER 31 refugees from a camp in Greece have arrived in Spain and are on the way to their homes in the south and west of the country.
So far, Spain has taken in 604 war victims this year, but is a long way off its target of 18,000 before the end of 2017.
Of those who have found shelter and a new life in Spain, 325 have come from refugee camps in Greece and Italy.
The latest arrivals are four Iraqi nationals and 27 Syrians – in total, five men, five women and 21 children.
Five of them will live in Cáceres, in the land-locked western region of Extremadura, 10 each in Murcia and in Almería, and another six in the province of Cádiz.
The first group of unaccompanied children – a total of seven girls and boys - to reach Spain have now been in the country a week after being collected from Greece and taken to Motril (Granada province) as part of a pilot project in Andalucía involving 24 children's shelters set up for underage refugees with no adult family members.
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