GREECE — An eight-months pregnant Afghan asylum-seeker was released from hospital Tuesday after having set herself on fire over the weekend at a camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, the migration ministry said.
The 26-year-old woman placed her two children outside her tent on Sunday before setting fire to it in a bid to burn herself alive, said police.
Other camp residents, police and firefighters all helped put out the blaze, the statement added.
Examined in hospital, it emerged that she was suffering from psychological problems after having had her request to be relocated to Germany refused — though a ministerial source said that this had been “a misunderstanding”.
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