Greece: Refugees reach Lesbos as night falls on the Mediterranean

Dozens of refugees and migrants arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos on Friday evening after journeying across the Mediterranean Sea in small boats. The refugees, predominantly from Syria, arrived in small vessels, many of them without engine. They were assisted by rescue team members and volunteers on shore. Hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean and landed on European shores in 2015, with Greece and Italy seeing the majority of arrivals. At the end of September, EU officials reached an agreement to move an estimated 160,000 refugees from Greece and Italy to other member states over a period of two years.