mirror.co.uk THURSDAY 05.03.2020 DAILY MIRROR^13
DM1STprobe Scene of body findWoman ‘saw
murdered lad
near station’
a R aIL passenger has told
of her horror at seeing a
murdered boy’s body on
scrubland near a station.
Shanur ahmed, 16, was
found dead with head inju-
ries at 8.40am yesterday.
Lucy Farrell, 25, was on
the platform at Gallions
Reach and saw a cleaner
trying to revive him.
She said: “I realised it
was a body – a young man
face down in the grass.
“There was a muddy
trail as if he had been
dragged there.
“The cleaner was on the
phone and shaking him.
“It’s so sad to think what
happened to him.”
Police are probing
reports 30 youths – some
with baseball bats – were
spotted near the station in
East London on Monday.
Shanur, of Manor Park,
was reported missing in
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lator: “We all left our home at night. We
gathered what we thought we would
need for the journey and just left.
“Our village in Helmand Province was
being attacked by the Taliban because
we are a minority tribe. They wanted us
out. I had already been injured in an
Islamic State bomb attack.
“after many months walking, getting
across the sea was the worst thing.
“My two-year-old daughter fell in. She
has been coughing and very sick. Maybe
she has pneumonia. Now, thank God,
she is getting medical help.”
as he talks, his sons Yasin, six and
Mahamad, four, throw pebbles into the
sea. His other daughter, Sahirah, shows
me their pile of belongings.
They have six blankets and six
sleeping bags in bin liners, and little else.
Kostas, a police officer helping clear
up, surveys the pitiful scene.
“This is an impossible problem,”
he says. “It is inhuman to leave
them, but people here in
Lesbos feel they have been
abandoned by the government
and by Europe.”
He picks up the fake life-
jackets left on a bench
where tourists would
usually come to
admire the view,
muttering: “They
would actually drown
more quickly
wearing these.”
around the
coast, an EU flag
flutters as a
reminder that
this is the frontier
of Europe.
G r e e k c o a s t g u a r dvessels are the only ships on the horizon.
The latest influx of migrants was
prompted by Turkey’s hardline presi-
dent Erdogan declaring his nation’s
borders with Europe were open.
He said Turkey had no choice after
3.7 million Syrian refugees flooded in.
But Greece toughened up security.
Yesterday Turkey said a Pakistani
migrant was shot dead by Greek security
forces at the land border.
Greece denies the claims.
It also faced global condemnation
after footage emerged of a packed
dinghy nearly capsizing as a coastguard
ship sped towards it.
Officers could be seen pushing back
the flimsy craft with poles.
The Greeks’ actions follow attacks
against aid workers on Lesbos.
an Irish volunteer doctor told how
her team was ambushed by a mob,
some of whom were armed with
nail-headed cudgels.
Dr Victoria Bradley, a GP, said
the convoy of eight vehicles she
was in was surrounded as it left
the Moria reception camp on
Lesbos, where nearly 30,
migrants live in filthy conditions.
Last week a planned
deportation camp was
torched by protesters.
Lesbos-born Val Moore,
a Greek citizen based in
the US, told me: “Refu-
gees have become the
scapegoats for the
downturn in
tourism here. It
has been brewing
for years. They
worry that tourists
will stop coming
and they will lose
their livelihoods.”
tom.parry@
mirror.co.uk
@parrytomB y tom parry
Special Correspondent in Lesbos
PICTuReS bY phIl haRRISMIGRANTS’ ORDEAL FLEEING TALIbAN
ON Monday exhausted Shamsullah
Noorzia stumbled up a stony beach
carrying his daughter, hoping he had
at last got his family to safety.
His tiny daughter was soaking, her
teeth chattering with cold after falling
in during the illegal two-hour
crossing of the five-mile strait
from Turkey to the Greek
island of Lesbos.
They had been given fake life-
jackets filled with useless
packaging foam by the people-
smuggler who persuaded them
to pay $1,000 each for their
passage on an inflatable dinghy.
Yesterday, after camping out
for two nights with other newly
arrived afghan families,
Shamsullah and his children
were herded on to a minibus
hired by the authorities.
The 28-year-old dad-of-four
didn’t realise it, but this was prob-
ably the end of the dream.
as Lesbos battles vigilante
groups who are targeting its over-
crowded migrant camp – and the
volunteers who help out there – the
government is changing tactics.
While clashes between police and
migrants continue at the country’s
land border with Turkey, here the
arrivals were driven to a ship on which
they will be temporarily housed.
The ship will transport them to a
closed detention centre on the Greek
mainland, and from there the likelihood
is that they will be deported back to
afghanistan, their home country.
Under emergency measures intro-
duced by Greece’s Prime Minister last
week, they cannot apply for asylum.
Shamsullah tells me through a trans-Afghan families seek asylum but find only misery
Mirror man Tom with one of
the migrants’ fake life jacketsw ARNING
After walking for many months,
crossing the sea was the worst
thing... my 2-year-old daughter
fell in and she is now very sick