Greece: Migrants Shot Following Pay Dispute

Some 20 strawberry pickers from Bangladesh have been shot and wounded in Greece after their foreman opened fire following a dispute about their pay.

The shooting occurred close to the village of Manolada, near the Ionian Sea and about 260km (161 miles) west of Athens.

Police Captain Haralambos Sfetsos said the Greek foreman responded with a shotgun after around 200 workers, who were demanding six months of unpaid wages, "moved threateningly" towards him and two colleagues.

"The injured have been taken to various nearby hospitals. We have been informed that none of the injuries are life-threatening," Captain Sfetsos said.

Two men have reportedly been arrested while police are still looking for a third. They are understood to be Greek.

The owner of the farm, who was not present at the time, has also been arrested for questioning.

The workers are all understood to be of Bangladeshi origin

Pictures showed some of the workers on stretchers at a medical centre in Varda, with their clothes torn and bloodied.

Greece's Syriza opposition party have condemned the incident as a "criminal, racist act".

Meanwhile, Greece's Communist Party (KKE) have said the strawberry trade in Greece is similar to a "modern-day slave trade".

Manolada has previously been at the centre of cases involving violence against migrants. In 2012, two Greek men were arrested for beating a 30-year-old Egyptian worker.

In 2008, migrants working on farms in Manolada went on a four-day strike in protest at what they claimed were poor wages and squalid living conditions.

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